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In the 2009 Great PurpleHull Peas & Cornbread Cook Off, Linda Miller of
Emerson ran away with the competition, winning three of the six caterogies,
including the most prestigious, "Best Purple Hull Peas."
Billy Samples, seen here with an admiring grandson, took top honors in the
cornbread division of the 2009 Great PurpleHull Peas & Cornbread Cook Off.
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The 2010 Great PurpleHull Peas &
Cornbread Cook Off
For those of us who grew up in the
Emerson area, those hot sticky summer days we toiled through as kids had
at least one advantage: There was usually a pot of fresh purple
hulls waiting for us on the dinner table.
Mix in a good piece of hot
cornbread, right out of the oven, and you had cuisine akin to manna from
heaven.
The PurpleHull Pea Festival tries
to relive some of those great pea dishes of old, and maybe create a few
new ones in the process.
If you think you're a pretty
good peas & cornbread cook, we encourage you to enter the next Great
PurpleHull Peas & Cornbread Cook Off.
It will take place at the Emerson School Cafetorium at 3:00 p.m.,
Saturday, June 26.
For more information, contact
Sarah Shepherd at (870) 547-2756 (If unable to contact this number, try
her cell at (870) 904-1528), or email her at
landm@swat.coop.
Here are the categories for 2010
(same as 2009):
Best Cooked PurpleHull Peas, Best Cornbread, Best Condiment (pea topping, such
as relish, chow-chow, jelly, etc.), Best Original Recipe using PurpleHull
Peas or Hulls, Best Cobbler, and Best Salsa.
Below are the winners of the 2009 competition. Some of the recipes
are on the Reci-peas page.
Best PurpleHull Peas:
1. Linda Miller - Emerson, AR
2. Marla Hanson - Emerson, AR
3. Phillip Scarborough - Texarkana, TX
Best Cornbread:
1. Billy Samples - Emerson, AR
2. Christine Snider - Springhill, LA
3. Teresa Sherman - Magnolia, AR
Best Original Recipe Using PurpleHull Peas:
1. Linda Miller - Emerson, AR
2. Carolyn Campbell - Emerson, AR
3. Christine Snider - Springhill, LA
Best Condiment:
1. Linda Miller - Emerson, AR
2. Teresa Sherman - Magnolia, AR
3. Emerson Lunch Room Ladies
Best Salsa:
1. Brenda Samples - Emerson, AR
2. Marie Shepherd - Emerson, AR
3. Betty Ramsey - Emerson, AR
Best Cobbler:
1. Peggy Callender - Emerson, AR
2. Mary Waller - Emerson, AR
3. Marie Shepherd - Emerson, AR
First place winners have the
option to have their
recipes put on the festival's Web site. (That is, if he or she wishes to
divulge it.)
The peas and cornbread are
judged separately by an independent panel of judges not associated with
the festival.
Good luck. Let's get cooking!
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