Vintage State Fair Cookbooks

Blue Ribbon Recipes - County Fair Winners, published in 1968. This book was once belonged to the Timm Chiropractic Clinic per several stamped pages.

The State Fair Blue Ribbon Cookbook, Recipes by America's Foremost State Fair Prize Winner, published in 1976. All the recipes are from Opal's personal collection. Opal Hayes entered the Illinois State Fair for over 45 years. She won more than 2,000 Blue Ribbons, 42 trophies, 16 Purple Rosette Sweepstakes Ribbons and was judged "Cook of Today" ten times. In 1955 - her most successful year - 115 of the 130 entries she submitted won Blue Ribbons.