{"id":1741,"date":"2013-07-22T18:24:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T18:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/drp\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2013-07-22T18:24:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T18:24:25","slug":"move-over-fried-twinkies-iowa-state-fair-historic-recipe-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2013\/07\/22\/move-over-fried-twinkies-iowa-state-fair-historic-recipe-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Move over, fried twinkies: Iowa State Fair historic recipe contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3375\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/transcribe\/scripto\/transcribe\/2903\/60163\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3375  \" alt=\"To make almond cheese cakes, Ann Kenwrick cookbook, 1770 | Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2013\/07\/almondcake.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">To make almond cheese cakes, Ann Kenwrick cookbook, 1770 | Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This August, traditional Fair fare such as deep-fried Twinkies, Snickers, and sticks of butter will be making room for even more old-school treats featured in the UI-sponsored Szathmary Historic Recipes cooking contest. Up for recreating 18th- and 19th-century desserts like <a href=\"http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/transcribe\/scripto\/transcribe\/2903\/60163\" >Almond Cheese Cakes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/transcribe\/scripto\/transcribe\/1795\/56219\" >Summer Mince Pies<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/transcribe\/scripto\/transcribe\/379\/39026\" >Mrs. Matson&#8217;s Marlborough Pies<\/a>? Unintimidated by units of measurements such as &#8220;about the bigness of an Egg&#8221; and ingredients like &#8220;Orange Flower water&#8221;? Then see contest details on page 53 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowastatefair.org\/upl\/downloads\/competition\/premium-books\/food-23.pdf\" >Iowa State Fair food booklet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And to get in a historic mood, please visit our Iowa Digital Library Pinterest site to view a selection of digitized <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/iowadiglib\/idl-iowa-state-fair\/\" >State Fair cartoons and clippings<\/a>, ca. 1894-2004.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3373\" style=\"width: 611px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/iowadiglib\/idl-iowa-state-fair\/\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3373 \" alt=\"Iowa State Fair @ IDL Pinterest\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2013\/07\/isfpin2.jpg\" width=\"601\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iowa State Fair @ IDL Pinterest<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This August, traditional Fair fare such as deep-fried Twinkies, Snickers, and sticks of butter will be making room for even more old-school treats featured in the UI-sponsored Szathmary Historic Recipes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2108,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}