A fundamental ingredient in making bread other than flour, water and salt
What is yeast?
The action which most baking recipes call for prior to placing the pastry in the oven
What is preheating?
The number of tablespoons that go into a cup
How many are 16?
The category (fruit or vegetable) which a tomato falls into
What is a fruit?
The most common ingredient used to preserve meat for centuries
What is salt?
A famous holiday treat with English roots and typically containing cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and molasses
What is gingerbread?
The temperature referred to as 'room temperature' for baking ingredients
What is 70°F or 21°C?
The container most often used to sauté
What is a skillet?
The name for a special type of long French bread
What is a baguette?
The culture that wrote the oldest surviving recipes
Who were the Mesopotamians?
The primary ingredient in polenta
What is corn?
The culinary term for allowing dough to rise
What is proofing?
The most commonly used item for "docking" a pie crust
What is a fork?
The culinary term for a thick, creamy soup, usually with a base of strained broth of shellfish or game
What is bisque?
The person who invented pizza
Who was Raffaele Esposito?
What baking soda releases when it comes into contact with moisture or acid
What is carbon dioxide?
The place where anpan (a sweet bread filled with a bean paste) originated
Where is Japan?
The blender part used to increase or decrease power
What is a selector switch?
The full term that "spam" came from
What is spiced ham?
The country where Caesar Salad was invented
Where is Mexico?
The common name for solanum tuberosum
What is a potato?
The culinary phenomenon attributed towards the browning in baked goods
What is the Maillard reaction?
The kitchen tool which is expressly used to slice an alligator pear
The classification of fruit which bananas fall into
What is a berry?
The country where the "world's oldest bread", dating back 8,600 years, was discovered
Where is Turkey?