£100—FOR AN APPLE PIE!

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 41, 5 April 1940, Page 47

£100—FOR AN APPLE PIE!

Unusual Contest Launched By

ZB Stations

to a man’s heart is through his eating apparatus, but we feel inclined to amend that slightly to say — through his liking for apple pie! It is agreed that most housewives are natural diplomats when it comes to handling husbands, but there are many who do not realise the potentialities of apple pie as a keeper of the " Domestic Peace." So there is particular interest attached to the’ ambitious "Apple Pie Contest" to be conducted by the ZB Stations. All housewives are invited to roll up their sleeves to bake a good old-fash-ioned apple pie. This is one of the most LT has often been said that the way

unusual and practical contests to be held in this country. The Commercial Broadcasting Service wants to find the champion apple pie cook of New Zealand, a proud title and a worth while one-seeing that it carries with it £100 in cash! With this incentive, one can visualise such a collection of apple pies that, if they were placed side by side, they would reach from North Cape to the Bluff. Little pies, big pies, round pies, Square pies, oval pies, oblong pies. brown pies, golden pies, pies in pyrex dishes, in porcelain dishes, in silver dishes, or just in plain enamel dishes; fancy pies, plain pies — they are all needed so long as the cook makes generous use of health-giving, tasty New Zealand apples. Local contests will be conducted by each of the ZB Stations, and the prizewinners in each of the four centres will be brought to Wellington, at the expense of the National Commercial Broadcasting Service, to compete for the championship title in a spectacular contest at the Centennial Exhibition on Friday, April 26. ' Preliminary Rules In order to select the contestants in the local competitions (which, by the

way, will be conducted in public), all housewives are invited to submit an apple pie for preliminary judging. The five best in each centre will entitle the makers to compete in the local competition. The rules for the preliminary contest are as follows: 1. The entry must be the work of the person submitting it. 2. No professional cooks will be admitted to the competition. 3. The decision of the judging committee is final, and entries are received only on this understanding. 4. No_ responsibility will be accepted for any entry being damaged

before judging, or for loss, or oversight. 5. No correspondence will be entered into regarding the contest. 6. No entry will be accepted after the time set down for the closing of entries. 7. Entrants must be prepared to cook in public if selected as finalists. All entries will be judged by an appointed committee of experts. The winner of the local contest will receive a handsome trophy and will be eligible to compete in the national contest for which the first prize is £100. Consolation prizes willbe awarded to each of the other four finalists. Well, housewives, it’s up to you! Your ZB Station will be glad to give you full details of this unusual competition, which is certain to create Dominion-wide interest. Husbands, insist on your wife entering, and suggest to her that before she makes a pie for the contest, she may as well make a couple for you to gain a little extra practice! You have always, said your wife makes the best apple pie -see she takes advantage of this opportunity to make a pie which will be worth £100, to say nothing of the short holiday to Wellington at the expense of the oi