bottled/canned beef stew contest!! i enter

[cherrytree Profile]

British mincemeat usually a Christmas ‘preserve’ . It has nothing at all to do with minced meat (usually called mince over here) . I haven’t got time at the moment to explain, but if you Google mincemeat (one word) you’ll get the idea.
Then of course, we’ll get loads of replies on here , everyone giving their special recipes and probably a good explanation of it’s history which is always good fun.

[jeral Profile]

It's the 23rd today, so fingers crossed for you wargarden Let us know.

Well done on your tomato sauce first place. Do you put it down to the type of tomatoes you can get or to the inclusion of other ingredients?

[wargarden Profile]

jeral winning that year i put down to three factors, tomato variety, the other ingredients and the unconventional cooking method used to prepare the sauce. I used the bake method for making sauce not simmer down method.
note the sauce category is meat free so that makes tougher to make good sauce.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

The bake method is one the great cookery writer Elizabeth David recommended, I used to do it in the days when I could buy large amounts of tasty, ugly, Moroccan tomatoes cheap in the market

Had almost forgotten it

[Joanbunting Profile]

Can I boast about my gold medal at the International N Marmalde competition in Penrith Cumbria ? However those who need or want to know, Know. But good luck WG. It's lovely to enter anything at a local show. I beat my grandmother into second place at the Gosforth flower and produce show (NE England in 1955) in the best apple tart competition. I still have the certificate. As far as I remember there were 20+ competitors, mostly my family and the WI (Women's Institute )

[Renee Profile]

Very well done Joan, but with your background, it doesn't surprise me!

[Sakkarin Profile]

I will certainly be bragging next month about the 20th anniversary of my double distinction in my C&G cookery course!

Mind you, that took me three years...

[Joanbunting Profile]

OK i know it was naughty and any award for anything is a matter of great sense of achievement. As Renee says I was really encouraged to be competitive in my cooking from a very young age - so I blame the family

And yes, I do hope WG is rewarded for his efforts,

[wargarden Profile]

the results of the meat stew category in the fair:
I WON FIRST PLACE
with my beef stew!!

[Rainbow Profile]

British mincemeat usually a Christmas ‘preserve’ . It has nothing at all to do with minced meat (usually called mince over here) . I haven’t got time at the moment to explain, but if you Google mincemeat (one word) you’ll get the idea.
Then of course, we’ll get loads of replies on here , everyone giving their special recipes and probably a good explanation of it’s history which is always good fun.

Over here, in Oz, the 'British mincemeat' is often called 'fruit mince' which makes more sense to me!!
But originally, mincemeat (fruity type) apparently did always contain some meat and many modern recipes contain beef suet!

[Stokey Sue Profile]

the results of the meat stew category in the fair:
I WON FIRST PLACE
with my beef stew!!

[jeral Profile]

Hip hip hurrah

Well done

[wargarden Profile]

next week two more baking contests i may enter at fair. popovers and the other decorated cake contest.
the popovers i mastered last year.
the decorated cake i may on not enter; it all depends on homemade sugar molds working correctly.

[karadekoolaid Profile]

Well done!!
Which fair did you go to?
I only ask because i´m off to the States in the next few weeks, and might just submit one of my pepper jellies!

[Renee Profile]

Many congratulations wargarden!

I just love pepper jellies KK!

[Joanbunting Profile]

First place really deserves a big and the odd

Perhaps you could think about marketing it!

[cherrytree Profile]

Well done. You must be very pleased and relieved. It’s a nail biting affair, so many congratulations.

[Suffs Profile]

Congratulations Wargarden.

It’s many years since I entered local village show cooking competitions ... sometimes I did well, often I was an also ran ... bug I was a very inexperienced cook back then. I like to think I learned a lot from entering and seeing the results and asking advice from the winners about how I could improve ... without exception everyone was very happy to help me improve

[wargarden Profile]

oh i will be posting the recipe later today or tomorrow as promised.

[Lusciouslush Profile]

Unfortunately Wargarden, my posts to you on this thread have been removed & 'placed' in the administration thread - but very well done!