Camden youth is finalist in national recipe contest

ROCKLAND — Jennifer E. Smyth, 13, an eighth-grader at Mary E. Taylor School at Camden, is one of five national finalists in a recipe contest sponsored by King Arthur Flour. She entered the junior cookies and bar category.

Jennifer’s “Marble Squares” recipe was selected from 1,400 submitted from throughout the country. The selected recipes will be prepared and tested by judges from the company, who will select winners of the adult and junior categories. The winning entry in the junior division will win a trip for two to England.

Jennifer is the daughter of Peter and Evelyn Smyth of Rockland. Jennifer said that she enjoyed cooking and used her own version of one of her mother’s recipes in the contest. Cooking is a favorite pastime for the honor student. She likes to prepare pizza from scratch for family and friends.

Winning contests also is not new to the student, or with other members of her family. Last year, as a seventh-grader, Jennifer was a state science contest winner.

Jennifer’s mother, Evelyn, once won a Maine Sunday Telegram contest for blueberry muffins, and Jennifer’s great-grandmother, Blanch Evelyn Witham, won a cooking contest years ago for her “Heath Bar Crunch Cookies.”