Mum’s Plain Biscuits

Norma Allen was only in her early twenties when she started judging cookery. She went on to become one of the most respected judges in New South Wales, recognised for being a guardian of the standards that make show cooking unique and for her no-nonsense approach to assessing quality.

Over more than six decades she has cut, prodded, snapped, sniffed and tasted her way through thousands of cakes, biscuits, slices and other assorted baked goods at shows and Country Wo