Householding Contests
Put your baking, preserving and growing skills to the test! We want to see your best baked goods, pickles and jams, vegetables and backyard eggs. Ribbons and prizes awarded to the winners.
Only one entry per category. To enter please bring your registration form* and product to the warehouse door at our 714 N Fremont location on Friday, September 17th between 2 pm and 6 pm. Winners will be announced at the Fair.
Click here for a a registration form. Please fill out a form for each entry. Only one entry allowed per category.
Categories: Baking, Preserving, Best of the Backyard
Baking
• Fruit Pie - Bake us your tastiest fresh fruit pie. No restrictions on crust, but in our book butter is always better!
• Decorated Cake - Show off your artistic skills in this style-meets-taste competition.
• Pan Bread - Bring us your fresh-from-the-oven traditional loaf-style bread.
• Rustic Bread - Baked free-form on a stone, bring us your best hearth loaf.
Preserving - please bring 2 jars of your competition item. One for tasting and one for display!
• Pickles - Sweet, sour, garlicky or spicy...we want it all!
• Jam - Mashed, pureed, sliced or small whole fruit - bring us your best jam from local ingredients.
• Jelly - For those who prefer just juice, bring us your best jelly from local fruit.
• Canned Stone Fruit - Plum, cherry, peach and apricot! Show us how you preserve your summer!
Best of the Backyard
• Tastiest Tomato - Bring us 3 of your ripest, juiciest tomatoes from the backyard.
• Cornucopia - Bring us 6 - 8 homegrown veggies of different varieties. All veggies are welcome.
• Eggs - Bring us one dozen of your backyard eggs. No need to bring the hen.
Pie crust surprise:...
Fabulous pie crust made with whole wheat flour? Impossible. Or so I thought.
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