{"id":543130,"date":"2010-04-25T20:56:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T00:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakingbites.com\/2010\/04\/gold-medal-flour-scratch-baking-contest\/"},"modified":"2010-04-25T20:56:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T00:56:49","slug":"gold-medal-flour-scratch-baking-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/543130","title":{"rendered":"Gold Medal Flour Scratch Baking Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bakingbites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/goldmedalscratchbakers.JPG\" alt=\"Gold Medal Baking Contest\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the <a href=\"http:\/\/bakingbites.com\/2010\/04\/mini-ice-cream-cookie-cups-win-the-44th-pillsbury-bake-off\/\">Pillsbury Bake-Off<\/a> started, the recipe contest was all about from-scratch baking. I&#8217;ve got old cookbooks from the contest that feature all kinds of yeast breads, cakes and cookies, as well as main dishes. These days, the contest is much bigger &#8211; with a huge million dollar prize &#8211; but more of the recipes feature ready made ingredients instead of just the flour that was the original must-have ingredient. Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; there is nothing wrong with a sponsored event asking you to use sponsored ingredients in your entries and it is great to have an element of convenience to make baking\/cooking as accessible as possible. But for me, there will always be an edge for from-scratch baking.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there are still contests that give an edge to totally from scratch baking for those of us who love it. In this case, it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettycrocker.com\/community\/recipecontests\/goldmedalbakingcontest\">Gold Medal Flour&#8217;s Scratch Bakers&#8217; Club Baking Contest<\/a>. This baking contest requires that you use at least one cup of any type of Gold Medal Flour (All-Purpose, Whole Wheat, Better for Bread, Self-Rising, Organic, Wondra) and that baking is the primary method of preparation.<\/p>\n<p>The grand prize winner will get  $1,000 plus a gift basket worth up to $150, and 9 runners-up will receive gift baskets of baking goodies worth up to $150 each! The contest runs from May 4, 2010\u2013May 31, 2010 and all of the entries will be judged on creativity, taste, ease of preparation, appearance and overall appeal. I have to say that I think all of you (my readers!) will have no problems coming up with entries that meet this criteria!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Pillsbury Bake-Off started, the recipe contest was all about from-scratch baking. I&#8217;ve got old cookbooks from the contest that feature all kinds of yeast breads, cakes and cookies, as well as main dishes. These days, the contest is much bigger &#8211; with a huge million dollar prize &#8211; but more of the recipes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}