plantains/ bananas part 1
plantains/ bananas part 2
Pastries
French
Cooking Utensils
100
True or false… bananas are technically a berry.
True!
100
True or false, plantains grow on trees.
False!
100
What did we cook this week?
Pain au chocolat
100
How do you spell chocolate in French?
Chocolat
100
What is this called?
A spatula. For an extra 200 points, what KIND of spatula?
200
True or false? Plantains are radioactive.
True. Both plantains and bananas contain high levels of potassium, making them radioactive.
200
Which one gives you faster energy?
a.) bananas
b.) plantains
a.) Bananas!
They have more simple sugars and less starch.
200
What did we brush on top of our pastries this week to give them a shiny golden exterior?
Egg wash.
200
What does "pain" mean in french
Bread
200
What are knives with "teeth" like a saw called?
Serrated knives.
300
Where should you keep a banana to slow down it's ripening process?
Somewhere cold, like the fridge.
300
Bananas are used to make which popular condiment:
a.) Mustard
b.) Mayo
c.) Ketchup
C.) Ketchup
During World War II, there was a severe shortage of tomatoes in the Philippines, which is why none of the citizens could find tomato ketchup to eat.
During such trying times, Maria Y. Oroso, a Filipina food technologist, experimented with making ketchup with bananas, fruits that were plentiful throughout the country. And thus, banana ketchup came into existence.
300
What is laminated dough?
Dough with layers of butter/fat that leads to flaky, airy, and puffy pastries.
300
What does "croissant" translate to in French?
Crescent
300
What kind of knife did we use to slice the puff pastry dough?
A chef's knife
400
Which floats?
a.) A peeled banana
b.) A banana with it's peel still on
c.) neither
d.) both
b.) A banana peel is full of tiny air pockets, making the unpeeled banana less dense than water, so it floats. The banana fruit itself is denser than water and sinks once its natural floaty is removed.
400
Which has seeds?
a.) bananas
b.) plantains
c.) both
d.) neither
c.) both
400
What does "patisserie" mean? (sorry, this one could have been in the French column too)
A place that sells pastries.
400
What does the culinary term, "julienne" mean?
It's a knife cut. To cut food into long thin strips. See poster.
400
What is this called?
A pastry brush, or basting brush. (Partial credit/100 points for just "a brush")
500
Plantains and bananas both belong to which genus?
MUSA.
500
What does "a banana republic" mean? (Not talking about the clothing store)
A Banana republic is a political term used to describe a state that is politically unstable and has an economy dependent solely on the export of its natural resources.
500
Croissants are very French, but they also have connections to what country/empire?
Austria and the Ottoman empire. During the 1683 Siege of Vienna, Ottoman forces, attempting to break through the city using underground tunnels. Vienna bakers, working early in the morning, heard the sounds of digging underground, which alerted authorities to the secret Ottoman tunnels. In celebrating their victory, Vienna's bakers crafted a special pastry called Kipferl, inspired by the crescent moon shape on the Ottoman flag.
500
What does "mise en place" mean?
"Everything in it's place." It means having everything ready to go, before you start cooking.
500
In this class, what have we been lining our sheet pans with?
Silpats: silicone baking mats.