Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance

FAMILY HEIRLOOM RECIPES

Picnics and Family Reunions

Indiana State Fair

August 7, 2014

 

(Image Catherine Lambrecht)

 

Contestants entered their best scratch family heirloom recipe suitable for a family or community dinner.  Recipe should originate before 1950.

 

Contestants brought a prepared dish along with a brief story of who passed the recipe down to them, ethnicity, if relevant, number of years the recipe has been in their family and any interesting information about their recipe.

 

JUDGING CRITERIA

Taste: 50%

History: 40%

Appearance: 10%

 

Premiums:

1st place – $150.,  2nd place – $100.,  3rd place – $50.

 

 

Competition was conducted on August 7th, these are the results:

 

First Prize:

Biscuits & Wild Blackberry Jam

Beverley Weaver Rossell, Morgantown, Indiana

 

 

 

Second Prize:

MINNIE MOM AND GRANDMA STELLA’S CHICKEN & NOODLES

Maureen May, McCordsville, IN

 

 

Third Prize:

Babu’s Polish rye bread

Christine Rienecker, Indianapolis, Indiana

 

 

 

Honorable mention:

Grandma’s Yeast Rolls and Freeze Strawberry Jam

Jennifer Dickie, Greenwood, Indiana

 

 

 

Honorable mention:

Hot German Potato Salad

Phyllis Hine, Waveland, Indiana

 

 

Contestants:

Irish Soda Bread

Nora Spitznogle, Indianapolis, Indiana

 

 

 

 

Grandma’s Blackberry Cake

Susan Gibbs, Indianapolis, Indiana

 

 

 

Aunt Letha’s Hickory Nut Cake

Carol Meeks, Indianapolis, Indiana

 

 

 

A Cookie Shared through the Decades

Deborah Green, Fortville, Indiana

 

 

 

Mamaw’s Reunion Boston Cream Pie

Kevin Zirkle, Fortville, Indiana

 

 

 

STUFFING … lt’s not just for Thanksgiving anymore!

Eileen Beyer, Shelbyville, Indiana