The Recipe Contest
Recipe Contest
Sponsored by: 
The Recipe
Contest was featured on Food Network last year and is sure to
be just as great this year!
UC Cooperative Extension –
S.J. County 4-H
Stockton Asparagus Festival Recipe Contest
420 S. Wilson Way,
Stockton, CA 95205
Age Categories:
12 years and younger
13-18 years
19-adult
Categories:
Appetizers: Bring 8 pieces
Cookies: Bring 8 cookies
Cakes: Bring one ½ cake
Pies/Quiche: Bring one
Pickles: Bring 1 jar
Soups, Stews: Bring 1 pint
Relishes, Salsas: Bring 1 jar
Jams, Jellies, Preserves: Bring 1 jar
Muffins, Breads: Bring 6 muffins or ½ loaf
Awards offered per class:
In addition to the cash prizes awarded, first place winners in each
category
will receive an asparagus crate crafted by M. Calosso and Son, and
all
contestants shall receive a special gift.
$20 First Place
$10 Second Place
$5 Third Place
Festival management reserves right to combine similar age
categories if
numbers of entries so warrant.
Judging:
A judge’s decision is final.
No person shall be allowed to interfere with the judges
during their
decision making.
Personal criticisms by an exhibitor of an exhibit belonging
to another
person are unethical and will result in disciplinary actions.
A judge shall have the authority to disqualify or transfer to
the correct
class.
The judge shall use the American Judging System and award
first,
second, or third place according to merit.
Judging begins at 11:30am.
Rules:
- All food contest
recipes must use asparagus –fresh, frozen, or canned.
- On the day of the event food entries are to be brought
through the Oak Street Gate between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. on
Sunday, April 27, 2008. Food entries must be entered at the
judging area no later then 11:00 a.m. Late food entries may be
disqualified! Food entries and containers will become property of
the Festival. Items will not be returned.
- The finished product must be accompanied by 2 copies of
your recipe on a standard 3x5 or 4x6 recipe card. The Festival
reserves the right to refuse any entry without the recipe attached.
Do not write your name on the recipe card!
- Exhibitors
must have made their own food entries!
- An entry
eligible in more than one class will be entered and judged only in
the class for which it best qualifies. Entries not properly labeled
for their class may be placed in the proper class by festival
management whose decision may be changed only by the judge.
- Exhibitors
may enter more than one entry per class. No substitutions can be
made.
- The
festival management has the right to limit
entries to facilities available and/or cancel any class in which
there are not enough entries. Any return of entries under this rule
will be done on a nondiscriminatory basis.
- The
festival management shall not be responsible for accidents or losses
that may occur to any of the exhibitors or food entries at the
festival, and the exhibitors shall hold the management harmless and
indemnify it against any legal proceedings arising from such
accidents or loss. Enter at
your own risk!
- Festival
management has the right to remove any entry that is ineligible for
competition or is not to the best interest of the festival,
endangers public, or has violated festival rules.
- The
management is not responsible for errors in entries. Exhibitors
found guilty in any unethical practices related to the exhibitor or
violating any of these rules will forfeit all premiums awarded and
other privileges as determined appropriate by
Festival management.
- The
festival management shall withhold awards for all entries that are
determined ineligible.
- Judging
results and awards will take place at 4pm at the judging area.
- All home
canned entries (jams, pickles, etc.) MUST follow correct USDA or UC
canning procedures for safety and be sealed in properly processed
canning jars. No paraffin is to be used as a seal. All processed
entries SHALL be labeled with exhibitor’s canning method, contents
used in the container and date processed. Recipe cards must
accompany each canned product and must list exact amount of
ingredients.
- Enter appetizers, desserts, cakes, muffins, breads, etc. on paper or Styrofoam plates. Enter pies on disposable aluminum plates. ALL FOODS MUST BE COVERED IN PLASTIC WRAP! Food safety is extremely important! Refrigeration and warming ovens are now available at the Festival.