Ingredients
Baking
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Food
History
100

A fundamental ingredient in making bread other than flour, water and salt

What is yeast?

100

The action which most baking recipes call for prior to placing the pastry in the oven

What is preheating?

100

The number of tablespoons that go into a cup

How many are 16?

100

The category (fruit or vegetable) which a tomato falls into

What is a fruit?

100

The most common ingredient used to preserve meat for centuries

What is salt?

200

A famous holiday treat with English roots and typically containing cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and molasses

What is gingerbread?

200

The temperature referred to as 'room temperature' for baking ingredients

What is 70°F or 21°C?

200

The container most often used to sauté

What is a skillet?

200

The name for a special type of long French bread

What is a baguette?

200

The culture that wrote the oldest surviving recipes

Who were the Mesopotamians?

300

The primary ingredient in polenta

What is corn?

300

The culinary term for allowing dough to rise

What is proofing?

300

The most commonly used item for "docking" a pie crust

What is a fork?

300

The culinary term for a thick, creamy soup, usually with a base of strained broth of shellfish or game

What is bisque?

300

The person who invented pizza

Who was Raffaele Esposito?

400

What baking soda releases when it comes into contact with moisture or acid

What is carbon dioxide?

400

The place where anpan (a sweet bread filled with a bean paste) originated

Where is Japan?

400

The blender part used to increase or decrease power

What is a selector switch?

400

The full term that "spam" came from

What is spiced ham?

400

The country where Caesar Salad was invented

Where is Mexico?

500

The common name for solanum tuberosum

What is a potato?

500

The culinary phenomenon attributed towards the browning in baked goods

What is the Maillard reaction?

500

The kitchen tool which is expressly used to slice an alligator pear

What is an avocado cutter?
500

The classification of fruit which bananas fall into

What is a berry?

500

The country where the "world's oldest bread", dating back 8,600 years, was discovered

Where is Turkey?