CHANGING TIMES: Charters Towers QCWA branch members Lyn Robinson and Jenny Potter peruse a sample of packet cake mixes that for the first time ever can be entered into a QCWA cookery competition. Source: Supplied
PACKET cakes will be allowed in a Queensland Country Women's Association cooking competition for the first time in 90 years.
The bastion for from-scratch cooking is being forced to move with the times to attract younger members and as a result will include a packet cake contest at an upcoming Charters Towers contest.
QCWA northern division vice-president Ivy Marano said the changes were a sign of the times and the decision to include a packet cake class was made last year.
In another first, delegates also voted to allow competitors to use their own recipes, not the QCWA's.
Mrs Marano said in recent years there were concerns the authorised QCWA recipes were not being used by everyone, which had perhaps given some competitors an edge.
"I often complained about the steamed plum pudding. I didn't think that was to the recipe," she said with a laugh. "Now when you do it, you've got to provide the recipe as well to the judges," she said.
Mrs Marano said the inclusion of a packet cake class highlighted that many people were time-poor and whipping one up was something they could do to be involved.
"You've got a lot of young ones who just get a packet cake," she said. "A lot with children don't have the time to cook from scratch.
"I'm 77 and I've always used my mother's old recipes.
"I've only ever cooked one packet cake and I think that was a chocolate cake for my son's birthday."
The Charters Towers branch will host its cookery contest on April 21.
- The Northern Miner
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