Anglesborough champion baker continues to bring home the prizes

It is no exaggeration to say that Anglesborough has a champion baker it its midst, as Dina Moloney Feery scooped the Brudair Cup for overall baking at last weekend’s Charleville Show. The prize is a cumulative award for having the best outcome overall for baking, which included the creation of a coffee cake, a carrot cake, an un-iced fruit cake, white soda bread, a Swiss roll, and gluten-free scones.

However, Dina is no stranger to being on the winner’s podium, as she won the same title at Charleville Show in 2013 as well.

Speaking with The Avondhu, Ms Moloney Feery declines to say which she considers to be her best product, but confesses being drawn to novelty bakes.

“I like when they look for a novelty cake, something that’s creative that no one else will have. The last year for Cappamore I made a hurling pitch after Limerick won the All-Ireland, with a cake with Kyle Hayes in the middle of it.”

BUTTER QUEEN

Ms Moloney Feery only took up baking after she retired and started watching baking shows on TV. However, she was no stranger to entering show competitions having started entering them with needlepoint when she was 11.

She took to baking later in life, being a butter maker in Tipperary Co-op for 28 years before retiring. Her handy skills came into play there too, as she holds five Read medals, or All-Ireland medals, for the best butter in Ireland. She would have a sixth but “One time I was beaten by 0.6 of a mark and when I queried it I was told, ‘you can’t have it every year!’”

Her winning streak didn’t stop there, as one year her entry of three lots of butter for the Spring Show in Dublin netted not only first place, but second and third as well.

Her show success continued in 2010 when, representing Cappamore, she won the Odlum’s All-Ireland prize for home baking in Tullamore.

Dina will continue later in the year with a top-secret entry for Cappamore Show up her sleeve.