Posted on 07/08/2022 4:45:32 AM PDT by dynachrome
The Virginia Kentucky District Fair is trying to find a woman who dominated almost every category. Her name is Linda Skeens. Linda enter many dishes in the county fair earlier this month and no one can find her.
The annual Virginia Kentucky District Fair has been around for over a century and never has anyone won so many categories. Skeens won first, second or third place in almost every cooking and baking category at the fair. She is trending on the internet and yet no one knows how she looks, nor has she come forth to claim her many many ribbons.
People are amazed at how she had time to prepare so many items to enter. These are just a few of the categories Linda Skeens took the top spot:
Best Cake
Best Pie
Best Jelly
Best Applesauce
Best Brownies
Best Apple Butter
Best Pumpkin Butter
Best Spaghetti Sauce
Best Sauerkraut
Best Overall Baked Goods (for her Strawberry Fudge) Linda Skeens also placed in Best Cookies, Best Bread and Best Candy. This lady should be on a reality cooking show!
Linda is not just a bionic superwoman in the kitchen. She also placed in all three embroidery categories as well.
A lot of the entries were things you can make ahead, like the preserves. The rest just a matter of coordinating, like cooking TG dinner by yourself for lots of family.
Clone her not many women are happy cookers.
Perhaps her leukemia has re-emerged and she in in a hospital OR has passed away!! The good Lord gave her the strength to complete all of these tasks and leave her mark in a small way!!
Can she hunt too?
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I hear you. Reminds me of my granny, an orphan, who was taken in by a relative with a farm. She grew up cooking large quantities, not just to feed the family, but also all the farm hands. My fond memory of her was a five-foot tall little old lady lifting huge 6-gallon pots of potatoes or sauerkraut at church suppers. Her arms were so strong, she could open jars that the men couldn't open. Her own modest kitchen was so small you had to leave the room to change your mind; but she regularly cooked as many as 12 separate dishes and a 24-pound turkey for our large family gatherings, which involved the uncles going down to the basement to bring up several tables and line them up as one long, cloth-covered table across two rooms. The trick was not to sit at a "crack," where one table was a half-inch shorter that the one next to it under the tablecloths. I miss those days very much.
It's real, and she is spectacular.
My mom NEVER cooked I taught myself probably had every damn cookbook ever published until the internet happened!! I LOVE TO COOK, I also LOVE cleaning as I go along for some ODD reason it relaxes me I enjoy it so much!!
We are starting to garden. I look forward to canning and pickling or freezing fresh veges and berries! NOTHING like garden tomatoes.
In a couple of years when I am in my 70’s I just might run a few jars down to the fair, haaa!!!
I’m the oldest so I learned to cook when I was in the 4th grade. My parents were out in the garden and were getting in late so I was starving (haa!). Mother said I needed to get cooking. By 5th grade I was cutting up a fryer and making fried chicken! My dad’s mom was a fabulous cook. Czech. Kolaches, cinnamon rolls, pies, cookies, fresh bread every week!!
I like eating out...but like to cook too. What I LOVE about the internet is you can now cook and it tastes like a fancy restaurant so it makes it more fun for me. The only thing I don’t like is having to make the menu all the time. Hubby eats anything, which I am blessed, but has no favorites.
Like you, I love to clean! Drives some of my friends with maids crazy! Actually I also help a friend at times clean their B&B for mad money!!! That really drives them crazy!! I enjoy the workout. I also mow the yard! Some is with a riding mower, the rest is easier with a push mower as it has lots of plantings and I don’t want to throw rocks through the windows, haa! The push mower is not self propelled as I like to back up with it in places. Had to rig it because the lawyers don’t like that as one person probably lost a toe not paying attention...!!! If I didn’t do these things I would be yuge, but like you, they are relaxing!
Cheers!!
Almost all of it is make-ahead; the baked items are probably best very fresh, but that’s still quite a feat. She’s ORGANIZED,
Aunt Bee Pickles
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