Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance

FAMILY HEIRLOOM RECIPES

 

Wisconsin State Fair

August 4, 2013

 

 

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

History: 50%

Prepared recipe: 40%

Appearance and display: 10%

 

Premiums:

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

 

Premiums sponsored in partnership with The Spice House:

 

 

Competition was conducted on August 17th, these are the results:

 

 

First Prize:

Mom’s Schaum Torte

Gary Sullivan, Janesville, Wisconsin

 

 

Second Prize:

Christmas Eve Baccala
Terry Magestro, Oak Creek, Wisconsin

 

Third Prize:

Kapustne Haluski

James Papala, Cudahy, Wisconsin

 

Fourth Prize:

Nanna’s Irish Stew

Catherine Q. Rousseau, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin

 

 

Contestants:

Houska

(A Bohemian Sweet Bread)

Timothy Anton Urbaniak

 

 

Chocolate Ice Box Cake

Christine Foris, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

 

 

Grandma’s Lemon Cake

Cindy Paul, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin

 

 

Grandma Great’s Prize Coffee Cake

Stephanie Paul, Butler, Wisconsin

 

 

Italian Cappelletti

Sally Zorko, Greenfield, Wisconsin

 

 

Irish Corned Beef and Cabbage

Lois Trongard, Pewaukee, Wisconsin

 

 

Mary Grillhoesl’s Red Cabbage

Linda Faust, Greendale, Wisconsin

 

 

Grandma’s Baked Corn

Donna Westray, West Allis, Wisconsin

 

 

Ukraine Halabsy & Onion Gravy
(Cabbage Rolls)

Barbara Strahler, Reedsburg, Wisconsin

 

 

“Norwegian Meatballs”

(The Alternative to Lutefisk)

 

 

Heritage Mincemeat Pie

Beth Campbell, Belleville, Wisconsin

Potato Cake

Michal Riege, Colgate, Wisconsin

 

 

Sarma

(for Slava)

Bozica Blagojevic, Greenfield, Wisconsin