4-H Alumni Chili-Chocolate Cook-off winners named

 

[January 30, 2019] 

LINCOLN 

The Logan County 4-H Alumni recently hosted a Chocolate/Chili Cookoff where celebrity judges tasted each entry/recipe to determine a winner.

This year 4-H youth were also invited to make entries in the contest. A total of seven chili entries were received (including two youth) and eight chocolate recipe entries were received (including two youth).

Celebrity judges included Logan County Board member, Janet Estill; Lincoln Community High School Culinary Arts teacher, Brenda Silano; Assistant Superintendent of Logan County Fair Culinary Arts Department, Jena Read; and Nancy Schaub. Logan County Fair Queen, Molly Schempp, tallied the scores and awarded prizes to winners.

Top winners (L to R:) Molli Rose Williams, Daniel Crider, Logan County Fair Queen Molly Schempp, Pam Tibbs, and Carol Tibbs

The top entries selected by the judges were Pam Tibbs’ chili entry and Pam Tibbs’ chocolate entry with “runner up” chili awarded to Carol Tibbs. Top youth entries selected included Daniel Crider with top chili and top chocolate with “runner up” chocolate awarded to Mollie Rose Williams.

Crowd favorite winners (L to R):  Ethan Bertram, Logan County Fair Queen Molly Schempp, Val Leinenbach

Those in attendance were also able to vote for their “crowd favorite” and the winners of crowd favorite were Ethan Bertram’s chili recipe and Val Leinenbach’s chocolate recipe.

To find out more about the Logan County 4-H Alumni group, future Alumni events, or to join the planning committee, please contact the Logan County 4-H Office at 732-8289.

About 4-H: Illinois 4-H empowers and prepares Illinois youth for success. University of Illinois Extension provides 4-H programs in every county in Illinois, affecting the lives of 200,000 youth each year through sustained learning clubs, groups and short-term programming.

[Patty Huffer
Extension Program Coordinator/4-H Youth Development]