Your Saturday Culinary Quiz

Written by Asinus Asinum Fricat on June 7, 2008 – 7:39 am -

1. This cake is associated with Dublin City and is made from stale bread mixed with raisins and water, spread over a puff pastry base and baked on a  large baking sheet. After baking, a layer of icing is spread on top and the cake is cut into squares.  The cake was especially popular amongst Dublin children and was immortalized in a book by Eamonn Mac Thomais. In other regions of Ireland the cake is called Chester cake, Donkey’s Wedding cake and Donkey’s gunge/gudge.

2. A Japanese glutinous, sticky rice cake. The rice is steamed and pounded into a paste before being shaped into a cake. They’re eaten while still soft or left to cool and harden. Popular accompaniments include soy sauce, sugar and nori.

3. Complete this sentence from Shakespeare’s King Henry V, Act I, Scene 3: “I would give all my fame for…”

4. This is a general name for a group of edible fungi which have tubes rather than gills under their caps. Most have fused or multiple caps and examples include Hen of the Woods and Beefsteak Fungus.

5. This French chemist and television personality wrote a recent book on molecular gastronomy. He believes that a knowledge and understanding of science will help enhance culinary experiences.

6. How many species of Pacific salmon are there? Bonus is you can name them!

7. This common baking ingredient is what is left behind after grape juice has fermented to wine.


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6 Comments

  • At 2008.06.07 12:02, Anne Hawley said:

    Wow, these are tough ones, AAF! I can come up with part of one answer off the top of my head: 6 - Chinook. Is Copper River a species? I don’t know.

    I hope you’ll share something with us from Number 5.

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    • At 2008.06.07 12:19, Asinus Asinum Fricat said:

      His name is Herve This. I haven’t read his opus, and probably won’t. I’m one of those who prefer to cook and eat food in a simple manner. Apart from new taste sensations I don’t see the point of molecular cuisine, either you’re a chef or a chemist.

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    • At 2008.06.07 15:55, Scotia48 said:

      Gotta go watch the Belmont-GO BIG BROWN! Citation won the triple when I was born, Secretariat when I was 21 and now BIG BROWN at 60!!! GO-GO-GO!
      1. Bambrack
      2. rice dumplings??
      3. not an Act 1 Scene 3
      4. Tree fungus like chicken fungus?
      5. ???
      6. King, Coho, Silver, Dogfish, Chum, Cutthroat
      7. Yeast

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      • At 2008.06.07 16:05, Asinus Asinum Fricat said:

        I’ll post the answers in 1 hour!

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      • At 2008.06.07 17:05, Asinus Asinum Fricat said:

        Answers:

        1. Gur Cake
        2. Mochi
        3. …a pot of ale.
        4. Polypore
        5. Herve This
        6. Five: Sockeye, Chinook, Chum, Coho or Silver and Humpback or Pink.
        7. Cream of Tartar

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        • At 2008.06.07 18:08, Scotia48 said:

          Still say, not an Act 1 Scene 3, maybe you mean another scene?

          Tell me about the cream of tarter, sounds interesting.

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