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Step aside, Food Network. Living History Farms hosts its own cooking competition, with surprise ingredients, discerning judges and two centuries of drama. The next round of the Cast-Iron Cook-Off is set for Aug. 8, when cooks in four historic kitchens have just a few hours to whip up a historically authentic meal.
Staff competitors use only the cooking equipment, techniques and recipes at their respective sites: the 1700 Ioway Farm, the 1850 Pioneer Farm, the Tangen House in the 1876 town of Walnut Hill and the 1900 Farm. In addition to three surprise ingredients, which will be delivered to each site in the morning, the cooks can use whatever else they have on hand — as long as the extras would have been available in an Iowa kitchen in their respective time period. For example, only the 1900 cook would have vanilla, thanks to the arrival of the railroads.
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