By MARY ANN LIENHART CROSS
County Extension Director, Purdue Extension Elkhart County

The 2015 Elkhart County 4-H Fair President, Rich Utley, Middlebury, has announced the President’s Baked Item this year will be Custard Pie.

The President’s Baked Item is an open class contest in which anyone over the age of 8 years of age in the Michiana area can enter. There is no pre-registration or entry fee, however you must pay an admission fee at the gate. Bring your entry to the 4-H Fairgrounds, Home & Family Arts Department Building, on Thursday, July 23.

Check-in is from 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. with open judging at noon by Utley.

Participants may enter only one item. Your entry must be accompanied by a neatly written, printed or typed recipe on an 8-1/2- by 11-inch sheet of paper on one side only. Please include your name, address and telephone number on the back side of the recipe and include the year and category entered. Names will be covered during judging. One winner will be selected from all entries and will receive a prize of $10 from the Elkhart County 4-H Fair Board.

All entries must be picked up by 1 p.m.

Recipes become the property of the Elkhart County Extension Homemakers with the right to use them for fair publicity.

The Purdue Extension Elkhart County office prints the Open Class Home & Family Arts Department booklet each year with details on entering Open Class items. You may obtain a copy by visiting the Purdue Extension Elkhart County Office at 17746 County Road 34, Goshen, or download a copy at http://www.extension.purdue.edu/elkhart or http://www.4hfair.org.