Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance

FAMILY HEIRLOOM RECIPES

Family Favorites Never Served to Guests

(or whatever you like)

Indiana State Fair

August 13, 2015

 

 

Our Family Heirloom Recipe competition seeks your best made from scratch recipe of a family favorite never served to guests.  Maybe it is a favorite reuse of leftovers, something cobbled together because Mom’s doing laundry.  Can’t think of anything, well bring whatever you want. 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 13th, these are the results:

 

First Prize:

Green Tomato Mincemeat Pie

Fancheon Resler, Albion, Indiana

 

 

Second Prize:

Grandma Rosenbaum’s Persimmon Pudding

Betsy Holtsclaw, Moorsesville, Indiana

 

Third Prize:

Brown Sugar Butter Toffee

Becky Lindsay, Greenfield, Indiana

 

 

Honorable mention:

Love Boats

Jennifer Dickie, Greenwood, Indiana

 

 

 

 

Contestants:

 

Tuna Noodle Casserole

Eileen Beyer, Shelbyville, Indiana

 

 

 

German Cucumber Salad

Carol Meeks, Indianapolis, Indiana

 

 

 

Aunt Nellie’s Chicken Noodle Soup

Christine Rienecker, Indianapolis, Indiana