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and the winner is…

21 August 2010 by Dominic Franks

… not me…

… little known fact:  The woman from the WI has a handbook that tells her exactly what size, shape, texture and taste to look for…. I need me one of them handbooks… she turned up to our little village hall with a tape-measure!…

Tina pretty much swept the board on the baking front… as for me, well, what can I say?

Oh and the Red Velvet Cupcakes and the chocolate cake didn’t even get classed… I think the East Midlands isn’t quite ready for Red Velvet… although the cupcakes did go for the record amount of £5.50 in the auction!… bless you Elaine x

I’ll write up more tomorrow with pictures, when I sober up, but let’s just say that much fun was had by all and it’s the taking part that counts not the winning… yeah whatever…

… roll on 2011

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  1. Magic Cochin says

    21 August 2010 at 6:10 pm

    I knew that shortbread was a winner as soon as I saw it!

    Well done!

    Celia

  2. The kitchen princess diaries says

    21 August 2010 at 6:17 pm

    Congratulations on your wins. Not surprised the shortbread won it looked amazing.

  3. Brownieville Girl says

    21 August 2010 at 6:44 pm

    I feel vicariously proud!!!!

    Congratulations :-}

  4. silverpebble says

    21 August 2010 at 10:10 pm

    The shortbread was too beautiful not to win. Hurray!

  5. Emmalene says

    22 August 2010 at 7:17 am

    You did really well- congratulations. And third prize for the bread when you only made your first loaf a few months ago is pretty good going! Hope you're celebrating today??

  6. Dom at Belleau Kitchen says

    22 August 2010 at 1:04 pm

    thanks for all your kind comments and support guys… was a fab day!

  7. Helen T says

    22 August 2010 at 2:32 pm

    It's our village show in a couple of weeks time, and have discovered much the same: if you veer from the WI tradition then you may as well as not have entered! Am practising a very traditional lemon drizzle and measuring my tins. Well done on your win though, and on the fundraising glory of the cupcakes!

  8. Рафаэлла says

    22 August 2010 at 6:38 pm

    My congratulations!!!! @—)))—>

  9. Ocean Breezes and Country Sneezes says

    22 August 2010 at 6:50 pm

    Wow, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes! What a day for you! I've never entered a cooking/baking contest . . . maybe I will with my nana's maple walnut cake! I enjoyed my visit and will stop by again!

    http://oceanbreezesandcountrysneezes.blogspot.com/

  10. Choclette says

    22 August 2010 at 7:44 pm

    Hah! After all that it was your shortbread that got your your first – well I'm not surprised. Well Done. And if you had won all hands down, you'd have nothing to look forward to next year – so they say anyway.

  11. Phil Lowe says

    23 August 2010 at 4:14 pm

    Hey Dom, really well done mate. Those WI ladies can be fierce in their judging. Proud of you.

    PS: like the kitchen header.

  12. Dom at Belleau Kitchen says

    23 August 2010 at 4:17 pm

    thanks Phil… also turns out that the mother of the lady who won nearly all the cookery prizes, cooked the judges lunch!…. make of that what you will…

  13. Susan @ The Spice Garden says

    24 August 2010 at 11:35 am

    Hey now! That shortbread looked a winner to me! And the cottage loaf, too! I would love for you to do a post on making that large shortbread. I saw a shortbread mold in a shop the other day, but was intimidated to make one that large … there must be a trick to getting it cooked uniformly, shaped so it doesn't rise more in one spot and less in another, etc … do tell, Dom!

  14. Merlotti says

    27 August 2010 at 9:54 am

    Briliant! I love the idea of village shows! We found one this year, and decided which categories we were going to enter next year! Your entries look fantastic – well done!

  15. Liz says

    29 August 2010 at 3:50 pm

    Just catching up Dom on posts whilst I was away – and have to comment on Aby. My Dad's grandmother was called Jane Abey and I've managed to track her back to a William Aby who was born in Wrawby in about 1700. But the Aby family came originally from guess where? – Aby! which probably means I'm related to at least someone who still lives there….(hopefully not the WI lady)
    Anyway congratulations – how brave of you ! We'll have a scone bake off one of these days..

  16. Dom at Belleau Kitchen says

    29 August 2010 at 4:08 pm

    Wow Liz, that's so cool… I don't think there are any 'Aby's' left in Aby any more… but they all must have been descended from Vikings! There are a lot of 'by' endings around here, which in Danish means 'homestead' fab… I love a bit of local history!

  17. freerangegirl says

    2 September 2010 at 7:46 pm

    Congratulations Dom, breaking into the winners circle at village shows is no easy feat – well done you!!!

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