Soup-er Bowl
The main difference between soup and stew is that soup’s main focus is this component.
What is the liquid?
This gas, produced by leavening agents, creates bubbles that make baked goods rise.
What is carbon dioxide?
This process adds or produces gas in dough to make it rise.
What is leavening?
The scientific name for a potato, the part of the plant that is underground and stores nutrients.
What is a tuber?
A salty solution used to season or preserve foods like meats and pickles.
What is brine?
This clear soup is made by clarifying a stock or broth with a raft of egg whites and meat.
What is a consommé?
This type of yeast does not need to be proofed in warm water before use.
What is instant yeast?
Before European contact, Indigenous peoples in Canada made these dense travel breads from corn, roots, nuts, and seeds.
What are corn cakes, ash cakes, or cattail bread?
Potatoes originated in this region of South America before spreading worldwide.
Where/What are the Andean Highlands/modern-day Peru and Bolivia?
The process of adding wine, stock, or another liquid to a hot pan to dissolve browned bits.
What is deglazing?
This type of thick soup is made by pureeing starchy vegetables or legumes in broth.
What is a purée soup?
This leavening agent reacts with an acid to produce CO₂ quickly, used in quick breads.
What is baking soda?
Scottish fur traders brought this quick bread to Canada, later adapted by Indigenous communities.
What is Bannock?
These potatoes are high in starch, low in moisture, and are ideal for baking and mashing.
What are mealy or starchy potatoes?
The French kitchen hierarchy system that assigns cooks to specific stations.
What is the brigade system?
Traditionally made with shellfish, this rich, creamy soup is thickened with rice and often finished with butter or cream.
What is a bisque?
In this mixing method, fat and sugar are beaten together to create air pockets before adding eggs and flour.
What is the creaming method?
These breads contain added fat, sugar, or dairy, giving them a soft, rich texture.
What are enriched breads?
During this 19th-century event, Ireland lost crops due to potato blight, causing mass famine and emigration.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
Clarified butter from India, known for its nutty flavour and high smoke point.
What is ghee?
Name one of the two famous cold soups often served chilled — one from Spain and one from France.
What is gazpacho or vichyssoise?
This mixing method uses whipped egg whites folded into a batter to create light, airy cakes.
What is the chiffon method?
The first step in breadmaking that determines how much product to make and requires accuracy by weight.
What is scaling the ingredients?
This French potato dish combines parboiled slices, caramelized onions, butter, and parsley, and is finished in the oven.
What are Pommes Lyonnaise?
The biological process that converts sugars into gases, acids, or alcohol using microorganisms.
What is fermentation?