The Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-11-19, Page 12First prize
Besides cooking .and baking, she
likes bowling and playing bingo. She's
usually lucky at bingo, she says and
two years ago, she and her husband
won $1,000 in the Goderich grandstand
lottery.
Looks like her luck is still holding .
out and she 'says she'll put her latest
winning to good use.
BY ,TOANNE
.BUCLIANAN
Mrs. Fred Looker of Goderich is the
first -place-winner--ht -Signal-Star's-
recipe contest this Year with her
macaroni and cottage cheese
casserole entry. .
. She was very surprised at winning.
"I really only entered because r
enjoy getting recipes myself and Ifeel
you have .to .put something in ,to get
something out," she explains. •
_Mrs. Looker enjoys-expertmentin
with new recipes all the time.
"I don't think I have, enough days
m left in y life to make all the recipes I
want to try," she laughs.
She says she figures she has been
experimenting with different recipes
for as long as she has been married,
which is almost 35 years. Her husband
and three children have always been
willing to try her experiments-with
'the exception of spaghetti sauce: She
came up with a recipe for spaghetti
`sauce several years ago that was- so
good, her children didn't want her to
experiment with any other kinds.
Her husband'e favorite recipe is her
butterscotch pie which she learned`to
make from her mother.
Mrs. Looker says she enjoys
cooking main courses better than ,
desserts. She particularly likes
making homemade soup. She also
makes green tomato pickles and
freezes beans from her small garden.
She plans all her meals for a week in
advance, makes her grocery list on
Wednesdays and then goes shopping
. for ingredients on Thursdays. She
says she doesn't cook as much as she
used to because there is just herself
and her husband`to feed now.
"One casserole can last us several
meals," she explains.
Third prize
BY JOANNE
BLICHANAN-
When Signal-Star Publishing
Company offered a recipe contest last
month, Mrs, Robert Cook of Goderich
decided to enter a few of her favorite
ones.
After entering the contest, she
promptly forgot about it again as she
became wrapped up in her .40th
wedding anniversary party plans for
October.
"I certainly never expected to
win," she said last week when she
came to the Signal-Star office to pick
up her third place prize of $40.
Mrs. Cook's winning recipe was
angel food cake filling, a favorite with
one of her grandchildren,
"It's a light dessert but you need
quite a few people around to eat it. I
usually make it a day ahead," she
explains.
Mrs. took especially enjoys baking
on rainy days, although she admits
that she doesn't bake as much as she.
used to.
"It's too tempting to samp,le," she
says.
She can remember baking bread
with her mother before she ever
married. She also picked up recipes
for Christmas cake and Christmas
pudding from her mother. Last year,
she entered her recipe for white
Christmas cake in Signal-Star's
contest.
One of her specialties though is
date squares. Her recipe for date
balls will appear in a future edition of
the Signal-Star.
For all her baking, she follows
recipes out of books.
"I have a lot of recipe books but I'm
always anxious to get more," she
says.
MRS. FRED LOOKER
Mrs: Looker decided to send her
macaroni and • cottage cheese
,ca.sterole recipe to , the contest
because it is, economical, easy to
make and tasty with a flavor similar
to lasagna. Last year she sent in a
recipe . for a Christmas dessert and
she says she has already tried several
recipes sent into last year's cookbook
by Other.people. . •
Cooking is • not Mrs. Looker's only
hobby. She enjoys' playing golf and
singing in North StreetoUnited Church
Choir. She also helps her husband
with his mail order business.
She isn't sure what she is going to do
with her $100 prize money yet. But she
is 'sure she will keep'on experimenting
with recipes , to serve when company
visits.
Mrs. Cook has a small garden and
she preserves pickles, chili sauce and
fruits.
BY SMLLEY MCP/iEE
What's a family to do with a pantry
full of zucchini and pumpkins?
Heather Fothergill of Londesboro'has
been using up the bountiful harvest of
. fall produceby making breads, loaves
and muffins. . • -
"ZaCchini Loaf " you cringer Well
it's not as bad as you may think, in
fact Heather's, recipe for the. ,bread
has won her second prize in Signal-
Star Publishing's What's Cooking At
Your Place contest. •
The Zuchinni . Loaf . recipe, along
-with Coconut Squares, -Crispy
Brownies and Apple Spice Bars were.
Heather's entries in the contest and
brought her winnings of $60.
Heather; 22, has been cooking for
many years and She has studied
several 4-H Homemaking Clubs, but
this is the first time she's won a prize
for her culinary efforts..
And the money will come in handy.
Heather, a • recent graduate from
Conestoga College's • journalism
program, is looking for work and said
that the $60 will help buy.Christmas
presents.
While Heather once received a
HEATHER 'FOTHERGILL
Huron County. Bursary of $150 -to use
for her College education, she does not
consider herself a lucky lady.
Heather likes to spend her time
creating • gastiOnomical delights,
especially dessert items, but she also
enjoys llowling,.is an avid reader and
has an unique serviette collection.
As for her 'cooking, Heather gets
many of her recipe ideas from her
mother's UCW booklets
'
from
magazines and from What's'Cooking
At' Your Place. And she's looking for
new recipes, she still has lots of
pumpkins and zucchinis to use up.
MRS. ROBERT
COOK
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