Cakes Sweeten Farm Show Competitions MICHELLE RANCK Lancaster Farming Staff HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) The inaugural year for the Pineapple Upside Down Cake Contest was a sweet one for Lucille Gaul, Reynoldsville. Gaul took home first place and $5OO from the contest. She is the originator of her winning rec ipe. “I’m always putting recipes to gether. I will lay out three or four cookbooks and say, ‘I like this one,’ or i like this ingredient.’” Gaul also does a small amount of custom-baking over the holiays. The pineapple upside-down cake, however, is a recent addi tion to Gaul’s baking repetoire. “I made half a dozen or so be fore,” she said. The cake which took home first was actually the second round for Gaul’s Farm Show entry, as she ended up making two cakes for the con test. “The first one I did in a two piece pan and the foil got a hole in and all the goodies ran out. I had to make another. I was glad I had time I did this late last night.” Second place winner Barbara Noye, Bellwood, Blair County, plans to contribute the prize money to her daughter, who re cently purchased red gilts at the Farm Show. The recipe is “the same one I always use, the recipe is out of a cookbook,” said Noye, who also contributed an entry to the apple pie contest. Noye almost didn’t enter the contest, as said she was too tired the night before from baking the apple pie, which she also entered in a Farm Show contest. She ended up making the cake at the last minute and putting it, still hot, into the car for the trip to Harrisburg. A collector of cookbooks, Noye estimates she has an assembly of 100 books. “But 1 only use the Grange cookbooks,” she said. “They have the best recipes.” She has baked close to 100 cakes over the years to take to picnics or her family’s horse shows. A rookie to baking contests, Rachel Jones Williams of Harris burg, Dauphin County, won third place. She often takes her baked confections to work, which led to her reputation in the work place. Her coworkers helped to coerce her into entering her fa Shoo-Fly Pie Contest (Continued from Page B 14) to be smooth). Pour into a 9 inch unbaked pie shell and top with remaining crumbs. Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes; then 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Shoo-fly Pie Faith Hostetler Third Place Filling: 1 9-inch unbaked pie shell VA cup All-Purpose Flour VA cup brown sugar, packed 3 tablespoons butter legg 1 cup Golden Barrel table syrup 1 cup hot water 1 teaspoon baking soda Combine flour, brown sugar. Cut in butter to make crumbs. Reserve 'A cup of crumbs for top of pie. In medium bowl, mix egg, syrup, water, and baking soda until smooth. Pour into pie shell and top with A cup of reserved crumbs. mous cake into the event, her first baking contest. “On one day I got 12 calls to see if I was going to enter the contest,” she said. A legal assistant at Pennsylva nia Higher education Assistance Association, she used her moth er’s recipe. “There is nothing pineapple in the cake batter itself, so the cake batter tastes very different from the the topping itself,” she said. According to Gerri Moore, family living coordinator, the cakes must be made from scratch instead of commercial mixes. First prize was $5OO, second place $lOO, and third place $5O. Fifty-one cakes were entered in the open competition and ar rived the afternoon of the compe tition. The five judges judged 10 cakes each. Ten cakes then ad vanced to semifinals. Following the event the cakes were cut into pieces and offered to the audience for their own testing and approval. Judges included Sherman Allen, auctioneer; Delores McKee, who formerly ran food service for Allentown School Dis trict; Linda McKee, Catasauqua; Sue Samson, New Cumberland, from “Lion’s Den Catering;” and Fred Trump, manager, Blooms burg fair. Health Craft sponsored the event and awards. The judges of the cake contest selected winning recipes on over all appearance, consistency, flavor, moistness, texture, and aroma. Below are the winning Pine apple Upside Down Cake reci pes. Pineapple Upside Down Cake First Place, Lucille Gaul 1 jar maraschino cherries (drained) 1 can pineapple slices (drain ed) 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar Vi cup margarine, melted Pour margarine in large round cake pan sprinkle top with brown sugar. Arrange pineapple slices on top. Put a cherry the center of each slice of pineapple. Cake Part: 2Vi cups flour 2 cups sugar 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 'A cup pineapple juice V* cup water V\ cup oil Bake in a preheated 425 de gree oven for IS minutes. Reduce temperature to 350 degrees. Bake for 20 25 minutes or more until done (middle should not be jiggiy)- After removing from oven, top with remaining crumbs. Flaky Pie Shell: 1 cup all-purpose flour V\ cup shortening Vi teaspoon salt 'A teaspoon baking powder ’A cup cold water Cut shortening into flour, salt, and baking powder with a pastry blender until mixture looks crumbly. Add water 1 tablespoon at a time until soft ball of dough forms. Pat into a flattened ball on floured surface. Roll dough out into a 'A inch thick circle. Fit into pie pan. Trim crust and flute edges. Chill crust while preparing pie filling. At second from left, Lucille Gaul, Reynoldsville, holds her first place pineapple up side-down cake. She is joined by Barbara Noye, Bellwood, second place; Rachel Jone Williams, Harrisburg; and Samuel E. Hayes, secretary of agriculture. 2 eggs 1 teaspoon pineapple extract Beat all ingredients in a large bowl on low for 30 seconds. Beat on high for three minutes. Pour into pan and bake for 35 to 40 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes and remove from pan. Mein's Pineapple Upside Down Cake Barbara Noye, Second Place 2'A cup flour 1 cup sugar 2 teaspoons baking power 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla Vi cup oil I'/i cup pineapple juice 3 eggs Topping: I cup brown sugar /1 cup butter 8 pineapple slices 8 cherries Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Pineapple Upside Cake Rachel Jones Williams Third Place TA cups flour (cake flour pre ferred) A cup sugar I'A sticks of butter (may add more) 4 eggs Vi cup milk Vt cup water Pinch baking soda 'A teaspoon baking powder 2 cups brown sugar 1 can pineapple (drained) 1 jar cherries Coat bottom only of pan with butter and place in refrig erator. Preheat oven to 350. Mix all dry ingredients. Make tunnel in center of cake mix. Add milk, water, and eggs. Mix well. Add butter and mix for 1 minute - let stand. Spray sides of pan with non stick spray. Sprinkle brown sugar in pan to cover bottom. Place pineapples and cherries in pan. Remix batter until smooth. Place batter in pan and bake at 350 for 35-45 minutes. Lancaster Farming Classified Ads Now searchable on the Internet Check Out Our Web Site :astcrfariniiii; com ww Volunteers cut the cakes to take to the judges. Ater the contest, each contestamant will have one piece of cake displayed for the remainder of the Farm Show. Sue Samson, from “Lion’s Den Catering,” and four other judges “sift” through the 51 entries of pineapple upside-down cake. Lois Knauf, in the foreground, prepares to take a piece of shoo-fly pie to the judges.
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