Blue Ribbon State Fair Recipes - Some Award Winning Recipes

!±8± Blue Ribbon State Fair Recipes - Some Award Winning Recipes

Blue ribbon recipes is the very best of recipes from state fairs around the country. From cakes, cookies, breads to jelly's and main dishes.

Here are some great blue ribbon recipes to prepare at home:

1. Thyme For Biscuits

Ingredients:

- 2 1/4 c Red Band all purpose flour
- 1 T sugar
- 3 t baking powder
- 3/8 t garlic salt
- 1/2 t basil, crushed
- 1 t thyme, crushed
- 1/2 c butter
- 1/3 c Parmesan cheese, Shredded
- 4 T dried tomatoes, drained and
- snipped
- 1/4 c sour cream
- 1/2 c milk

Directions:

- Pour 3/4 cup boiling water over 10 pieces of dried tomatoes.
- Let sit for minutes to dehydrate.
- Stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, garlic salt, basil and thyme.
- Using a pastry blender, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Stir in cheese and tomatoes.
- Make a well in the center of the dry mixture.
- Add sour cream and milk all at once. Stir just until moistened.
- Turn dough out onto lightly floured board.
- Flour top and knead 2 or 3 times. Lightly roll out ¾ inch thick. Cut with biscuit cutter.
- Place on ungreased baking dish.
- Bake at 425 degrees for 12-15 minutes or until lightly brown.

2. 1776 Coffee Cake

Ingredients:

- 1 c water, Warm
- 2 T yeast, or 2 packages
- 1/2 c sugar
- 1/8 t mace
- 1 c scalded milk
- 1 c lard, Melted
- 1 T salt
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 7 c flour, about
- Butter, softened
- Cinnamon & sugar, mixed together blueberries & cherries decorations

Powered Sugar Icing
- 1 t vanilla
- lb powdered sugar
- 5 T hot milk
- 1/2 t lemon flavoring
- 2 T white shortening (Crisco)

Directions:

Put the yeast in the water & set aside.

- Put sugar, mace, milk, melted lard, salt & eggs in a large mixing bowl.
- Add yeast mixture and about 7 cups of flour.
- Mix all ingredients together & work to a smooth dough.
- Let rise until double.
- Roll out on board 1/2" inch thick, spread with butter, sprinkle with cinnamon & sugar.
- Cut in strips one inch wide. Twist them as you place in a round 8" greased pan. Let rise about 40 minutes.
- Bake 18-20 minutes at 375 degrees or until golden brown.
- Ice with Powdered Sugar icing.
- Decorate with red cherries & blueberries and to with a flag in the center.

Powered Sugar Icing:

Combine all ingredients, beat one minute, add more milk if needed to make it spread easily.

3. 1986 Winner Praline Cookies

Ingredients:

- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 1/2 cup brown sugar, Packed
- 1 egg
- 1 /2 c
- 1 t vanilla
- 1cup pecans, Chopped

Directions:

Preparation time: 25 minutes Baking time: 10 to 12 minutes

- Heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cream butter, sugar and egg. Stir in flour, vanilla and pecans.
- Mix well by hand. Shape into balls about the size of walnuts, place on cookie sheets and flatten to about 1/8 inch.
- Bake 10 to 12 minutes, or until brown.
- Remove from oven and allow it to cool completely and harden.

Yield: 36 servings

Blue Ribbon State Fair Recipes - Some Award Winning Recipes

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Sandwich Platter - A Way to Express Yourself As a Host

!±8± Sandwich Platter - A Way to Express Yourself As a Host

Sandwiches are among the most popular fast foods in the world. Pizza, all kinds of pastas, burgers and sandwiches are all popular for the most important reason: they are variable. They can easily be made with other ingredients than intended and the result will be still great.

Pizzas are so many and so different that it would take another whole article to just barely touch the most important variations. Burgers however are fairly close to what a sandwich is. Burgers are usually made with a patty of ground meat while sandwiches can take any shape or form. They can contain meat or several different types of meat even, or none at all, it's entirely up to the taste of the person making it.

A good way of presenting sandwiches during a party or any other occasion is a sandwich platter. This is a plastic, wooden or more often metal rectangular plate specifically designed to serve sandwiches.

There is a more important question though, what should one put on a sandwich platter when they are expecting guests? The safe bet is to include several different types of sandwiches. This is one of the great benefits of sandwiches as a main dish, they take very little time to make and yet are so diverse, that everyone can have one they like.

It's advised to make sandwiches with and without meat, to make sure vegetarian guests' needs are also met. It's a good idea to make more sandwiches without meat though, as some people who otherwise like meat, will opt for the veggie ones.

A common sandwich to make is the BLT, which is short for bacon lettuce tomato. Some people in England eat these sandwiches with baked beans or mushroom but the basic recipe is perfectly fine with crispy bacon, some fresh lettuce, preferably iceberg, and fresh and thin slices of tomato.

A popular vegetarian sandwich is the variation with cucumber. This is made of firm and thinly sliced, salted cucumber and butter between two slices of white bread.

While it is not mandatory, cutting the finished sandwiches diagonally is advised, because they are easier to stack horizontally that way. They also look the best on the platter if they show their contents facing towards the person trying to pick. You may need to cut off the crust if the bread you've used is not square base or rectangular, stacking may become difficult lack of it.

Most people like to have sandwiches and they are very easy to make as well, a good compromise between great taste and ease of preparation. If you're looking forward to visitors you may want to devote half an hour to making some, a well compiled sandwich platter is always inviting.

Sandwich Platter - A Way to Express Yourself As a Host

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