County show time! Your favourite 'savoury flan'?

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I am hoping to wow at the County Show this weekend; the first time I have ever entered!

I am googling recipes but nothing very inspirational so far.

What's your favourite flan?

Oooh salmon and broccoli or goats cheese and caramelized onion...Or feta and sundried tomato....Or plain old cheese and onion. Just realised I really like quiche!!

Flan/quiche

I have no useful suggestions, so am here simply to wish you luck as county shows are such a wonderful institution and it’s great that you’re getting involved. Remember that it’s about the quality of the bake etc, so you can still do very well with a run of the mill recipe.

Goats cheese, spinach, thyme and red onion marmalade (spread on the pastry because I am too lazy to make my own caramelised red onions).

I've found a basil, pea and pancetta recipe on the BBC site, which looks good but I've just remembered that I made some red onion marmalade in the summer that I could make use of.....

I have won a few certificates in local shows but the County Show is obviously the daddy of them all....I run a little foodie sideline in my spare time so any certificates are nice to add to my profile. But I agree with you, Monica, the participation is what it's all about. I am not holding my breath because I know there are entrants who have been doing this for decades!

I'm running the gauntlet at our rather large agricultural show this weekend too but in the cakes section - tried the savoury flan last year and they didn't even slice it! (Sob)

So this year it's back to brownies and as I'm a glutton for punishment the lemon drizzle - last years class had over 40 entries 😮 and is apparently the one to win!

Iirc the savoury flan class last year was won by a quiche Lorraine - good luck and please come back and let us know how you got on 🍀

Don't get too adventurous with a savoury flan - its a flan, not a quiche! Local good cheese is much better than lots of different things, and using premade stuff is most def out.

I love a county show, and have many happy memories of bimbling round as we'd be on site for a couple of days showing the goats. I was flicking through the show guide for one when we were on holiday last week, and it had all the good classes like 'light fruit cake to given recipe' and 'childrens garden on a plate'. And prize money of 75p :-)

I'm confused... to me a flan is sweet and creme caramel-esue

Is there a definite difference between a flan and a quiche? There is no guidance with the literature, apart from it being round, so I looked up the dictionary definition - which was a 'pastry filled case, either sweet or savoury'

Prize money now £5!

I think thats more of a continental and US style definition, Lemony!

Now I'm worried about quiches and flans!

WI guidance says that flans should be baked in a round tin, not fluted quiche tins.

Thanks Dibbler - a fluted case was just what I was about to use!

Here are the judging rules:

Savoury flan
• Savoury pastry is sometimes used (for example, cheese, herb).
• Bake ‘blind’ in a plain flan ring on a baking sheet.
• A flan dish may be used. but pastry does not always cook through
underneath. Try putting on a baking sheet to increase base heat.
• Cooked sauce-based filling added to cooked pastry, then finished.

Quiche
• A quiche is not classed as a savoury flan and will be in a class of its own. It
is a pastry flan base, with a savoury egg custard filling, which is cooked
together with the pastry base.
• Be particularly careful that the egg mixture is cooked in the centre.
• Main points as for short crust pastry.
• Pastry even at edges, and not too thick.
• Filling adequate without spilling over, uniformly chopped/diced and
flavoursome.
• A good blend and combination of flavours, seasoned carefully

Does anyone have an example of a 'sauce-based filling'? I can't imagine one.

I imagine a sauce based filling is something like a bechamel

Thanks CMOT, but are there flans full of bechamel? It doesn't sound very nice!

Well as it turned out, we've got a last minute event to cater for tonight so I toned down my entries and the flan didn't make the cut....

I was up at 4.45am making muffins and at the showground at 6.45am. I think I might be in with a chance with my Easter biscuits! Time will tell.

Third prize for Easter biscuits and highly commended for the courgette, chocolate and cinnamon cake. Phew!

Congratulations! I love shows.

Good luck OP! I have just made a coffee walnut cake for the cake stall at our rowing club regatta tomorrow; all cakes are also entered for a competition so I was nursing modest hopes . . however I think the coffee I made wasn't strong enough so probably no chance.

Oh I should have RTWT - congrats!

Congratulations!