Bake your apples for $10,000 prize

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 280, 28 March 1989, Page 13

Bake your apples for $10,000 prize

Shake out your apron, dust off your baking tins, and dig out your favourite recipe - it's bake-off time all around the country.

Once a highlight of A & P shows, the traditional 'bake-off' has been revived by the Women's Division Federated Farmers and the New Zealand Apple and Pear Marketing Board. The prizes offered are also rather different from the blue ribbon title of old, with over $20,000 to be won, including a $10,000 first prize of European travel, plus whiteware and china. Runners-up in the national competition will receive coffee sets, microwave-safe china ovenware and apple recipe books to add to their collections. Fresh fruit manager

for the New Zealand Apple and Pear Marketing Board, Lawrie Hart says the bake-off has been revived to support the national introduction of a new range of premium bagged apples. "Late last year we began selling "Orchard Crisp" apples from Taupo south and are delighted with their saies success," he says. Shoppers throughout the whole country are now able to buy two or

three kilo bags of "Orchard Crisp" apples which are packaged with information on the variety, a "best before date" and a guarantee that promises replacement of any less-than-perfect fruit. To enter the "Orchard Crisp Big Apple Bakeoff" interested cooks are invited to send in their favourite recipes with an entry form from bags of Orchard Crisp

apples, which are on sale in supermarkets and greengrocers throughout New Zealand. A special toll-free "Orchard Crisp Big Apple Bake-off" hotline has been established on (09) 366-6276 to answer any questions about the competition. Entries for the competition close on 29 May 1989.