Texas Co-op Power Holiday Recipe Contest

Sponsored by Pioneer

Official Rules

Attention, cooks: We’d like to share your best original holiday recipes with 2.8 million Texas Co-op Power readers and give you a chance to win cash prizes and the acclaim of your friends and family. All recipes must include a Pioneer Brand product such as flour, gravy mix, microwaveable gravy, biscuit & baking mix, or pancake mix. Deadline for receipt of entries is September 10, 2008. Winners will be announced in our December 2008 issue.
 
Up to three entries are allowed per person. Each should be submitted on a separate piece of paper. Entries MUST include your name, address and phone number, plus the name of your electric cooperative, or they will be disqualified. Send entries to: Holiday Recipe Contest, 2550 S. IH-35, Austin, TX 78704, or fax to (512) 486-6254. To enter by e-mail (recipes@texas-ec.org), you must include “Holiday Recipe Contest” in the subject line and submit one recipe per e-mail (no attachments). No purchase required. We will not send notice of receipt. Entries received via e-mail must be received by midnight CST September 10, 2008. Incomplete, illegible or late entries will be disqualified.

You may enter up to three recipes. Each entry must be submitted on a separate sheet or separate e-mail (no attachments). Recipe page must be legibly printed or typed and include your name, address, phone number and the name of your electric cooperative. (Address and phone number will be used only to contact you with questions about your entry, to notify winners or to promote a Texas Co-op Power product.) Each recipe must include sponsor’s products. Include a complete list of ingredients, including our sponsor’s product(s), with the exact quantities in the order they are used. Specific directions (in paragraph form) must include cookware size (example: 10-inch pie pan), cooking time and temperature, and number of servings. Entries will be judged on originality, taste, ease of preparation, visual appeal, and use of eligible sponsor products. Selected recipes will be tested by Texas Co-op Power or the contest sponsor to determine finalists. Recipes will be tested as submitted, so please check carefully for accuracy.

All recipes become property of Texas Co-op Power and will not be returned. By entering this contest, you grant Texas Co-op Power the right to edit and publish the recipe, with credit, in Texas Co-op Power publications, products, and online services and those of its sponsors.

Entries must be the original recipe of the contestant and not previously published. Previously published recipes (such as those appearing in major cookbooks, in magazines, in newspapers, from food companies, publicized on the Internet, and winners in national contests) will be disqualified, unless the recipe entered features changes considered significant by the judges. Decisions regarding qualifications of recipes are at the sole discretion of Texas Co-op Power.

Prizes will be given as follows: grand prize of $3,000; four runner-up prizes of $500 each. No substitution or transfer of prizes, except at the discretion of Texas Co-op Power. Texas Co-op Power is not responsible for technical failures in entry transmission or for lost, misdirected or delayed mail. Winners may be required to sign a statement of eligibility and release of liability. This statement includes certification that his or her recipe is original and has not been published or publicized. Winners under 18 must have parent or guardian sign statement of eligibility and release of liability.

Contestants are wholly responsible for all costs incurred and any damage, loss or injury sustained during or resulting from participation in the contest. Winners must be residents of the United States at the time of judging. By acceptance of prize, winners consent to use of name and/or photograph for publicity purposes without further compensation. Void where prohibited by law. All federal, state and local regulations apply. Taxes are the responsibility of winners. Names of winners and winning recipes will be published in the December 2008 issue of Texas Co-op Power.

Pioneer Brand Products Acceptable for Use in Holiday Recipe Contest

Pioneer Flour

Buttermilk Biscuit & Baking Mix

Original Biscuit & Baking Mix

Low-Fat Biscuit & Baking Mix

Complete Buttermilk Pancake Mix

Buttermilk Pancake Mix

No-Fat Buttermilk Pancake Mix

Yellow Cornbread Mix

Yellow Corn Muffin Mix

Microwave Country Gravy

Microwave Brown Gravy

Microwave Turkey Gravy

Microwave Chicken Gravy

No-Fat Country Gravy Mix

No-Fat Brown Gravy Mix

Country Gravy Mix

Country Sausage Gravy Mix

Peppered Gravy Mix

Biscuit Gravy Mix

Brown Gravy Mix

Chicken Gravy Mix

Turkey Gravy Mix

Texas Chili Seasoning Mix

Texas Taco Seasoning Mix

Pioneer White or Yellow Corn Meal