A TEN-YEAR-OLD chef has been teaching old cooks new tricks, taking out a top baking prize in the process.
Sacred Heart Primary School student Priya Bielawski was named this year’s Big Bethanie Bake Off champion thanks to a 115-year-old family recipe.
The Highgate student impressed the judges with her Dorset apple cake at the grand final in Burswood Park last month, in which four school pupils went head to head with four senior residents from Bethanie villages.
Priya’s recipe was handed down through the generations, with her dad receiving it from his grandmother in a handwritten recipe booklet from 1902.
Bethanie Gwelup resident Linda Millington took out the Best Senior Award with her gingerbread cake with lemon icing.
“This is now our fourth year running the Big Bethanie Bay Off and it’s such a joy each year to see the interaction between the generations – despite some fierce competition going on in the background,” Bethanie chief executive Chris How said.
He said as well as creating an opportunity for Bethanie clients to reminisce and relive memorise that surface while searching for their favourite recipe, it is also an opportunity to close the generational gap between seniors and youngsters.
The other student finalists were Oscar Hawks from St Anthony’s School, who won the Best Student Award for his whitebait fritters; Chloe and Isabella Harris from Kalamunda Primary School, who made rizot and prsurate (Croatian black risotto and deep fried pastries); and Yasmine Yianni from Hospitality Training Group, who made the Greek custard pie galatopita.
The other three senior finalists were Bethanie Fields’ David Smith, with his Goan fish curry; and Bethanie Water Lifestyle Village’s Vidy Chatfield and Margaret Thorpe, who made chatti fried chicken and chocolate sponge, respectively.
All the finalists’ recipes will be published in a special recipe booklet.
