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Today’s Kitchen Essentials
Potpourri
The Year is 1952
May
100

This is what CARP stands for.


Canadian Association of Retired Persons

100

This updated toaster oven circulates air while it cooks.

What is a convection oven? 

100

Jelly is made primarily with this part of the fruit.


What is the juice or liquid?

100

This woman became the queen of England.


Who is Queen Elizabeth II?

100

This is the name of a children’s game where kids ask permission from a parental figure.


What is Mother, May I?

200

Many belonged boys’ and girls’ clubs as children, where badges were earned for learning new skills.


What are Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts?

200

These pans must be seasoned and are passed downfrom generation to generation.


What are cast iron pans?

200

The first modern trains were powered by this.


What is steam?

200

Women were rarely seen in public without this undergarment, something almost no one wears today.


What is girdle?

200

This May holiday is considered the unofficial beginning of summer in the Canada.

What is Victoria Day?

300

This international organization is best known for providing blood to those in need from the donations it receives.


 What is the Red Cross?

300

This machine uses an electron tube called a magnetron. The magnetron causes the water molecules in food to vibrate, which heats it.


 What is a microwave oven (or microwave)?

300

This is the term for a baby giraffe.


What is calf?

300

This Spanish-speaking island nation in the West Indies officially became a commonwealth of the United States.


 What is Puerto Rico?

300

Around one-quarter of all flower and plant sales are made in conjunction with this May holiday.


What is Mother’s Day?

400

This nonprofit organization helps families in need worldwide by building houses for them with the help of volunteers. The families also help with the construction of their homes.


What is Habitat for Humanity?

400

Aficionados of Chinese and other Asian foods must have this pan.

What is a wok?

400

This part of the rose is used in perfume.


 What is oil?

400

She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire.

 Who is Vivien Leigh?

400

This is May’s birthstone.


What is emerald?

500

This is a United Nations organization that provides humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.


What is UNICEF

500

This slicer guarantees uniform thickness.


What is a mandoline?

500

German chocolate cake is named for him.

Who is Samuel German? German, an American baker, invented the cake in 1852.

500

He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Charlie Allnutt in African Queen.


 Who is Humphrey Bogart?

500

This May holiday is considered the unofficial beginning of summer in the U.S.


What is Memorial Day?