Food and Drink Quiz 4
1. Which cooking term is used to describe vegetables cut into very thin strips and cooked slowly in butter?
2. What does the phrase al dente mean?
3. What is bouillon?
4. What is compote?
5. What cooking term is given to a garnish of spinach?
6. 'Plashing' is a term used to describe the collecting or gathering of what kind of nuts?
7. What is pumpernickel?
8. What are bigoli, farfalle, rigati and pansotti?
9. What are sometimes called Chinese Gooseberries?'
10. Gnocchi is a food from Italy. What is it?
11. If you were served crudit?s as a starter before your main meal what would you be eating?
12. Which vegetable is also known as the spinach beet or seakale beet?
13. Kale is a variety of which winter vegetable?
14. What is gazpacho?
15. Petit Fours means literally 'little ovens'. What are they?
16. What is beeswing?
17. What is sauerkraut?
18. In Italy, if you were served pesce martello, what would you be about to eat?
19. Umbles can be made into a pie and gave rise to the expression 'to eat (h)umble pie'. What are umbles?
20. Agar-agar is often used in cooking. What is it?
ANSWERS
1. Julienne
2. Pasta cooked firm
3. A type of soup
4. Fruit preserved or stewed in syrup
5. Florentine
6. Walnuts
7. German Black Bread
8. Pasta Shapes
9. Kiwi Fruit
10. Small dumplings made of potato, flour or semolina
11. Sliced or shredded raw vegetables
12. Swiss Chard
13. Cabbage
14. Cold soup
15. Small french cakes or biscuits
16. Film that forms on the side of a bottle of port
17. A German dish of pickled cabbage
18. Shark
19. Edible entrails
20. A type of gelatine