Village Show
Cuckfield Society Village Show Saturday 6th September 2025 at 2pm at the Cuckfield Baptist Church
Rules of Entry: LINK
Helpers needed to join our friendly fun committee and if you can also help on the day - please email cuckfield.society@gmail.com
If you are not already a member of the Cuckfield Society, do please consider it as it only costs £10 per year and it enables us to run the Village Show. See LINK.
Show Classes -
HORTICULTURE
VEGETABLES - any variety unless stated
1. 3 runner beans
2. Longest runner bean - 1st prize only
3. Heaviest vegetable - 1st prize only
4. A bunch of spring onions
5. 3 onions from seed or sets
6. 3 leeks
7. 3 beefsteak tomatoes
8. 3 cherry tomatoes
9. A lettuce
10. 3 potatoes
11. 3 carrots
12. 3 beetroot
13. Bowl of edible leaves
14. 1 cabbage
15. 3 courgettes (not exceeding 20cm long)
16. The Jo Roche Cup - home-grown produce in a container
17. Most spectacular/amusing vegetable (can enter on the day)
18. Garlic/onion plait (maximum 7 bulbs)
19. A cucumber
20. 3 French beans
FRUIT
21. 3 eating apples
22. 3 cooking apples
23. A plate of soft fruits (max. 10 items)
24. 3 pears
25. 3 plums
26. 3 sticks of rhubarb
27. 3 specimens of any home-grown fruit
FLOWERS (in your own vase)
28. 3 dahlias, cactus or semi-cactus variety
29. 3 dahlias, pom-pom/ball/decorative/other
30. The single most fragrant rose
31. 3 rose heads
32. Posy of fresh flowers
33. 3 gladioli
34. Bunch of sweet peas
FOOD AND DRINK
BAKING
35. The Katie Stewart Cup – 3 coffee chocolate brownies using Katie's recipe below.
36. 3 jam tarts
37. Chocolate fudge cake
38. Animal cake
39. Fruit cake
40. Tomato tart
41. White cottage loaf
42. 3 decorated biscuits
43. 3 cheese straws
44. A sourdough loaf
PRESERVES/DRINK
45. 1 jar pf chutney (any recipe)
46. 1 jar green pesto
47. 1 jar fruit jelly
48. 1 jar marmalade
49. 1 bottle of homemade fruit spirit
50. 1 bottle of beer
51. 1 bottle of home-made wine
CRAFTS
52. Piece of jewellery from recycled materials
53. Item made from old socks
54. Pair of trousers made into shorts
55. Something made from wood
56. Something made from metal
57. Item of knitting or crochet
58. Tote bag made from old clothes
59. Playsuit made from recycled material
ART (Max 60 x 60cm inc. frame in any medium unless otherwise stated; i.e. watercolour, acrylic, pastel, gouache, oil, charcoal, pencil etc.) Please label your art with title and medium used.
60. A landscape
61. A portrait
62. Still life
63. Mixed media collage
64. Seascape
PHOTOGRAPHY (Max. 20cm x 20cm unmounted). Black and white or colour.
65. Treasured pet(s)
66. Cuckfield building or monument
67. Cuckfield wildflowers
68. Cuckfield event
69. Cuckfield woodland
70. Cuckfield at night
71. Cuckfield people
JUNIORS (up to 14 years – age will be taken into account when judging)
72. Something I made at school
73. A garden on a dinner plate
74. Decorated hard-boiled egg
75. Original emoji design
76. Collage/sculpture made from recycled material
77. An original model made from Lego/similar
78. An animal made from fruit, vegetables or pasta
79. Decorated pebble
80. Miniature model scene in a shoe box
81. Illustration of favourite character from book or film
82. 5 squares of fudge
83. Rocky road refrigerator cake
Katie Stewart’s Coffee Chocolate Brownies (class 31)
Ingredients - makes 12
1 tablespoon instant coffee granules
1 x 115g packet plain chocolate chips
100g butter
175g soft brown sugar
2 eggs
75g self-raising flour
75g broken walnuts
For the icing:
1/2 teaspoon instant coffee granules
50-75g sifted icing sugar
Method
Preparation time: 20 minutes Baking time: 35 minutes
- Heat the oven to 160c (325F or gas no.3). Butter a 27.5 x 17.5cm (11 x 7 inch) rectangular baking tin. Measure the instant coffee granules in a medium-sized mixing bowl. Add 1 tablespoon of boiling water and stir to dissolve the granules. Add the chocolate chips and the butter. Set the bowl over a pan, quarter-filled with hot (not boiling) water and stir until the chocolate and butter have melted. Remove from the heat.
- Stir the sugar into the melted ingredients, then beat in the eggs, one at a time. Set a sieve over the mixing bowl, measure in the flour and sift into the chocolate mixture. Beat the mixture until smooth and shiny. Stir in the walnuts. Pour the batter into the prepared cake tin and spread level. Set in the pre-heated oven and bake for 35 minutes. Cool in the baking tin.
- To make the icing, combine the instant coffee granules with 1 tablespoom boiling water in a small bowl. Stir in sufficient icing sugar to make a runny icing. Drizzle over the baked brownies. Whe the icing has set, cut the brownies into squares.~
Copyright permission given by Andrew Leask