Huge Interest As Hundreds Enter The National Brown Bread Baking Competition. Prize Fund Worth Over €7,000
The National Brown Bread making competition has sparked great interest throughout the country as 421 bakers from every county in Ireland have entered, breads of a seriously high quality, to be named as “The Best Brown Bread Baker” in Ireland at this year’s Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska, Co Laois. The twenty seven individual county winners will now qualify for the Regional Final in An Grianán in Termonfeckin, Co. Louth on 14th August where the top 2 from each province will be selected to go to the Ploughing Championships for the semi-finals and final in the Aldi Marquee. The NPA are delighted that the National Brown Bread Baking Competition is making a comeback to the Ploughing for the first time since 1991. In association with the ICA and the generous sponsorship of Aldi this exciting project is taking shape. The prize pot is huge with €2,000 in Aldi Vouchers going to the overall “breadwinner”. The runner-up will receive €1,000, third €500, 4th €300 and the other 4 semi-finalists €200 all in Aldi Vouchers. All 27 County Winners will receive a €100 voucher which brings the prize fund to a figure of over €7,000.
FORMAT OF THE COMPETITION:
Two winners from each province will qualify to compete in the semi-finals at the National Ploughing Championships in September 2014 where the competition will take place in front of a live audience. There will be 2 semi-final heats over Tuesday 23rd/Wednesday24th September. The contestants placed first and second in each heat will qualify for the final on Thursday 25th September in the Aldi Tent at the National Ploughing Championships.
RULES OF THE COMPETITION:
- Each competitor will produce a home baked cake using not less than 10 oz of wholemeal and not more than 6 oz of white flour. Competitors can use any ingredients they please provided they keep the above proportion of wholemeal to white flour. A 2 lb loaf tin or round tin can be used.
- Professionals and staff members are excluded from competing.
- COMPETITORS NOTE: For the National Semi-Finals and Final, competitors will be obliged to use the ingredients supplied by Aldi. Competitors may bring their own baking tin.
- THE JUDGES DECISION IN ALL COMPETITIONS SHALL BE FINAL AND BINDING ON ALL COMPETITORS AND THE FACT OF ENTERING SHALL BE DEEMED AN ACCEPTANCE OF THIS RULE.
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