This year's show saw the inaugural award of the Valmae Burey prize for most successful junior baker.

Valmae spent over 50 years of her life teaching Glen Innes children at the West Glen school. In 2019 she was awarded the mayor's award for senior of the year.

Chief baking steward Mary Hollingworth said their inaugeral 2020 winner Allegra Pinefri had all the same qualities as the late Glen Innes community hero.

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"(Allegra) has been a really loyal exhibitor at our show for four years, I believe, in the baking," said Ms Hollingworth.

"Not only does she bake, she rides, she had some entries in the sowing, I think also maybe in the produce and the handicraft.

"The thing that's so wonderful to see young Allegra is because she's so keen and she's willing to learn.

"She practices, she listens, she asks for tips. She just epitemises someone who will be a Valmae when she grows up."

The show society received more entries than ever in the baking section this year; Mary said they were "overwhelmed" by interest.

But the society plans to build on their success next year, conjuring the spirit of the late great Australian cooking author Margaret Fulton.

Ms Fulton grew up in Glen Innes but later in life became the woman who "taught Australia to cook" writing hundreds of cookbooks over a decades-long career.

Will the 2020 Fulton prize for most successful adult baker teach Glen innes to cook?

The community will have to wait a year to find out.