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On with the Show By KYLIE WILSON
BRILLIANT BAKER: Glenice Campbell is a veteran baker whose entries are a highlight of the Rutherglen Show each year. PHOTO: Luke Plummer.
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FROM putting the final touches to tempting cakes and biscuits, to spending time sprucing up chickens out the back, entrants in agricultural shows across the North East are already getting into the swing and excitement of show season. And people like Glenice Campbell and Michael Holmes prove that traditional skills are still alive and kicking. For a few weeks each October, Glenice regularly banishes husband Billy from the kitchen of their Rutherglen home, as she carries out her annual round of baking for entries in the Rutherglen Show. But with sweet cooking smells filling the house, the promise of extra biscuits from competition batches, and a pantry and freezer full of treats for weeks, or even months afterwards, Mrs Campbell said he finds it hard to mind. From the fruitcake she puts together several weeks ahead, to the biscuits and sponge she whips up just before the show, Mrs Campbell plans her show time baking with an almost military precision. “I now have a folder I bring out each year, so I know which cakes I have entered,� she laughed. And this love of baking, and of the fun and bustle of agricultural shows, has carried on ever since she was a young girl growing up in Londrigan. continued page |
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