Preserving Foods
They are sweet or sour and made from cucumbers.
What are pickles? Crisp pickles start with homegrown cucumbers specifically grown for pickles. Commercial cucumbers are coated in wax, and they’re too large in diameter, so they make floppy pickles.
Everyone knew this ship was unsinkable—until it sank on its maiden voyage.
What is RMS Titanic? Morgan Robertson wrote the novella Futility about Titan, an unsinkable ship, 14 years before the Titanic sank—a novella that seemed to foretell the real ship’s story. After the Titanic sank, he expanded the novella into the book Futility or the Wreck of the Titan, which added more details from the real event
This Italian brand, with its trademark double Gs, is easily the most popular luxury clothing brand.
What is Gucci? The black crocodile belt will set you back $1,200.
The Great Depression helped bring about an end to the prohibition of this.
What is alcohol? Politicians believed that ending Prohibition would spur employment and stimulate the economy.
This is short for men’s formal eveningwear, starting with T.
What is tux? It’s short for tuxedo.
This brand of jars is most readily associated with home canning.
What is Ball? The Ball brothers started making their jars for home canning in 1884.
The Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts on this ship.
What is Mayflower? The voyage was financed by business people in Holland in exchange for seven years’ worth of goods that would be shipped back to them.
The least expensive phone from this Apple line starts at $399 or $299 with a trade-in.
What is iPhone? The most expensive iPhone starts at $1,099.
This U.S. president was in office during most of the Great Depression.
Who is President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (or FDR)? The depression began while Herbert Hoover was in office.
There’s an expression that calls someone “crazy like” one of these animals.
What is fox? Foxes are clever, crafty animals. When someone acts erratically but has a method to their madness, we say the person is “crazy like a fox.”
This is the popular term for preserving foods in glass jars.
What is canning? In 1810, the first tin can was approved for preserving foods commercially. At first, the containers were called canisters and later shortened to can. The term carried over for foods preserved at home in glass jars.
In 1941, the American battleship USS Arizona was sunk here.
Where is Pearl Harbor or Hawaii? Some of the survivors’ ashes have been buried in urns beneath the ship’s gun turrets.
The world’s most expensive caviar comes from this country.
What is Iran? It will set you back $3,000 for a small jar of Iranian caviar.
It is the infamous term for the droughts in the Midwest and Southern Great Plains.
What is Dust Bowl? The droughts began in 1930, and high winds whipped up the massive dust storms beginning in 1931, devastating farmers.
This is a vessel for carrying water, ending with a G.
What is jug?
If you have room, this is the easiest one-step method for preserving berries.
What is freeze them? Place unwashed berries in a zipper bag, squeeze the air out of the bag before closing it, and toss it in the freezer. If you want separately frozen berries, freeze them in a single layer on a jelly-roll pan and then put them in a zipper bag. Wash them when you’re ready to use them. Frozen berries keep six to eight months in the freezer.
While Captain William Bligh slept aboard this ship in 1789, some of his crew conducted a mutiny.
What is HMS Bounty? After an extended stay on Tahiti, half the crew captured the rest of the crew and set them adrift on a small boat with meager supplies. When the boat finally reached Timor, the crew was little more than skin and bones. The British Royal Navy finally caught the mutineers.
This watch brand that begins with an R is one of the most popular high-end watches.
What is Rolex? The most expensive watch in the current collection starts at $485,350, but the most expensive Rolex of all time was the Paul Newman Daytona, which sold at auction for $17.8 million.
Because of the crop failures during the Great Depression, farmers began to migrate to this place.
What is California? It is estimated 400,000 migrants settled in California.
This is the opposite of sorrow or sadness, beginning with a J.
What is joy?
True or false? You can freeze corn kernels at home.
What is true? You don’t have to can them or blanch them before freezing. Just toss them into a zipper bag and remove the excess air before sealing.
“Old Ironsides” is the nickname for this American warship built in 1797.
What is USS Constitution? It’s one of the world’s oldest warships.
This yellow-orange spice, which comes from the crocus and is often used to flavor rice, is the most expensive spice in the world.
What is saffron? Expect to pay around $13 per gram. Each crocus has only three strands, and saffron must be picked by hand.
These people lived in shantytowns called “Hoovervilles.”
Who are homeless people? The name comes from Herbert Hoover, president when the Great Depression started.
This is the conscious mind that deals with reality, beginning with an E.
What is ego? Freud said the id, the ego, and the superego comprised the personality. The id represents the unconscious mind, and the superego controls our moral standards.