Food Quiz

"Serene" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Nancy Young wrote:

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Almond paste. I *detest* almond paste. Love almonds. Can't
stand almond extract, either.

I'm with you. And marzipan is the worst food on the planet, as far as I'm
concerned. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating, but YUCK.

Not by much. Luckily they make marzipan into shapes too
pretty to eat, because I don't think they're edible. Blech.

nancy

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Kathleen said:

Julia Altshuler said:

Becca wrote:

> Holiday Foods Quiz
>
> <http://www.wyff4.com/tu/5tuL4p090.html>

I missed the ones on basting and stollen.
It makes me want to keep basting turkeys the way I've always done
and to try making stollen for the first time.

I bake my turkeys stuffed and overstuffed. I know that the most
recent health opinion is that baking a stuffed turkey is asking for
trouble. I have never found it to be so.

Nah, it's leaving the stuffing in the bird as it cools that's
dangerous, according to all I've read.

Serene

I do that every time I roast a stuffed chicken. Eat the legs, wings, and
half the dressing the first day, put chicken containing remaining
dressing in the refrigerator, then thighs, back, and finish the dressing
the second. Then freeze the breast for later pot pie. Never made me sick.

Tomorrow I'm heating a smoked turkey half breast from the freezer. Can't
decide wether to try dressing in a casserole which has never worked for
me or have something else with it besides cranberry sauce.

--
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always
remember that it is still an evil.

Max Lerner

kilikini said:

Serene said:

Nancy Young said:

"maxine in ri" <[email hidden]> wrote

> I tried that once. Came out yummy. But then anything you fill
> with almond paste and cover with powdered sugar tastes good to
> me.<g>

Almond paste. I *detest* almond paste. Love almonds. Can't
stand almond extract, either.

I'm with you. And marzipan is the worst food on the planet, as far
as I'm concerned. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating, but YUCK.

Serene

My aunt, when she lived in Germany, used to send us marzipan every
Christmas and I was the only person in the family who liked it. I'm
not sure I would today, though. Palates change.

Our Christmas cakes are made with a rich fruit cake, marzipan on top and
then thick sugar icing on top!

I take off the icing and throw it away, eat the marzipan and then eat the
cake with cheese🙂)

maxine in ri said:

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13. Calsones that's calZones, a bread dough circle filled and folded in half

I spelled it right. It's Jewish: A stuffed pasta similar to
ravioli.

But you still got more than I suspected anyone would. And you're
the only one who really even tried. Bunch of whimps.

Those were all from "The Oxford Companion to Food", BTW.

-sw

Sarah Gray said:

The only ones of those I know are tzimmes, calZones, and pastille.

It's calSones. Hey wait - aren't you Jewish?

-sw

ravenlynne said:

Arri London said:

Goomba38 said:

Nancy Young wrote:

> I missed one ... but then, I've never even eaten stollen, how
> would I guess that answer?
>
> nancy
>
>
From seeing it for sale in grocery stores and catalogs for ever?
It is good. You'd like it.
Goomba

Besides many varieties of stollen don't even contain any nuts at all.

I want a recount on my incorrect answer then! LOL.

--
-Gina in Italy

Hmm if it were up to me you'd be awarded the answer. However, since some
varieties of stollen *do* contain nuts, need to pitch that one to the
referees.

Ophelia said:

kilikini said:

Serene said:

Nancy Young wrote:
> "maxine in ri" <[email hidden]> wrote
>
>> I tried that once. Came out yummy. But then anything you fill
>> with almond paste and cover with powdered sugar tastes good to
>> me.<g>
>
> Almond paste. I *detest* almond paste. Love almonds. Can't
> stand almond extract, either.

I'm with you. And marzipan is the worst food on the planet, as far
as I'm concerned. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating, but YUCK.

Serene

My aunt, when she lived in Germany, used to send us marzipan every
Christmas and I was the only person in the family who liked it. I'm
not sure I would today, though. Palates change.

Our Christmas cakes are made with a rich fruit cake, marzipan on top and
then thick sugar icing on top!

I take off the icing and throw it away, eat the marzipan and then eat the
cake with cheese🙂)

One kind host of mine in Somerset made a Christmas cake and forgot to
add the glycerin to the icing. We almost needed a hammer and chisel to
crack the stuff. Fortunately I hate Christmas cake anyway so only had to
eat a small piece to satisfy hospitality! But good quality marzipan is
fantastic. We used to make marzipan 'fruit' and other figures when I was
a kid. Thinking my mother used to make her own marzipan...

Bobo Bonobo(R) said:

maxine in ri said:

On Nov 20, 3:49 pm, Julia Altshuler <[email hidden]> wrote:

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Becca wrote:
> Holiday Foods Quiz

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> <http://www.wyff4.com/tu/5tuL4p090.html>

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I missed the ones on basting and stollen.
It makes me want to keep basting turkeys the way I've always done and to
try making stollen for the first time.

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--Lia

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I tried that once. Came out yummy. But then anything you fill with
almond paste and cover with powdered sugar tastes good to me.<g>

Jack salmon?

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maxine in ri

--Bryan

My DH will use any kind of canned fish for his lunch, and yes, we've
had jack salmon here. Tastes like cat food. Don't know as I'd cover
it in powdered sugar, and it would overpower the almonds.

<g>
maxine in ri

Sqwertz said:

maxine in ri said:

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13. Calsones that's calZones, a bread dough circle filled and folded in half

I spelled it right. It's Jewish: A stuffed pasta similar to
ravioli.

But you still got more than I suspected anyone would. And you're
the only one who really even tried. Bunch of whimps.

Those were all from "The Oxford Companion to Food", BTW.

-sw

Never heard of it. I suppose there are a few items of food I've
missed, but
not many!

maxine in ri

kilikini said:

Serene said:

Nancy Young said:

"maxine in ri" <[email hidden]> wrote

> I tried that once. Came out yummy. But then anything you fill with
> almond paste and cover with powdered sugar tastes good to me.<g>
Almond paste. I *detest* almond paste. Love almonds. Can't
stand almond extract, either.

I'm with you. And marzipan is the worst food on the planet, as far
as I'm concerned. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating, but YUCK.

Serene

My aunt, when she lived in Germany, used to send us marzipan every Christmas
and I was the only person in the family who liked it. I'm not sure I would
today, though. Palates change.

kili

I only like marzipan in small amounts. mmmm, almonds!

--

Sarah Gray

Sqwertz said:

Sarah Gray said:

The only ones of those I know are tzimmes, calZones, and pastille.

It's calSones. Hey wait - aren't you Jewish?

-sw

yeah. I never heard of the things!

--

Sarah Gray

Sqwertz said:

maxine in ri said:

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13. Calsones that's calZones, a bread dough circle filled and folded in half

I spelled it right. It's Jewish: A stuffed pasta similar to
ravioli.

that sounds like kreplach to me, but what do I know 🙂

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But you still got more than I suspected anyone would. And you're
the only one who really even tried. Bunch of whimps.

Those were all from "The Oxford Companion to Food", BTW.

-sw

--

Sarah Gray

Sarah Gray said:

Sqwertz said:

Sarah Gray said:

The only ones of those I know are tzimmes, calZones, and pastille.

It's calSones. Hey wait - aren't you Jewish?

-sw

yeah. I never heard of the things!

--

Sarah Gray

Sephardic rather than Ashkenazi cuisine.

Arri London said:

Sarah Gray said:

Sqwertz said:

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:27:28 GMT, Sarah Gray wrote:

> The only ones of those I know are tzimmes, calZones, and pastille.

It's calSones. Hey wait - aren't you Jewish?

yeah. I never heard of the things!

Sephardic rather than Ashkenazi cuisine.

Arri must have the same book I do ;-)

-sw

Sqwertz said:

Arri London said:

Sarah Gray said:

Sqwertz wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:27:28 GMT, Sarah Gray wrote:
>
>> The only ones of those I know are tzimmes, calZones, and pastille.
>
> It's calSones. Hey wait - aren't you Jewish?

yeah. I never heard of the things!

Sephardic rather than Ashkenazi cuisine.

Arri must have the same book I do ;-)

LOL In fact I do have the same book, as well as the 'Companion to
American Food and Drink' (that one is cos I'm in it LOL).However I
looked it up on the Net. Handy, that is!

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-sw

maxine in ri said:

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Those were all from "The Oxford Companion to Food", BTW.

Never heard of it. I suppose there are a few items of food I've
missed, but not many!

This book is excellent, if you like reading food encyclopedias
(as I do). It's also known as the "Penguin Companion to Food".

-sw

Sarah Gray said:

Sqwertz said:

maxine in ri said:

> 13. Calsones that's calZones, a bread dough circle filled and folded in half

I spelled it right. It's Jewish: A stuffed pasta similar to
ravioli.

that sounds like kreplach to me, but what do I know 🙂

Kreplach are smaller and served in a broth. Calsones are more
like a pieroghi.

-sw

Sqwertz said:

maxine in ri said:

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Those were all from "The Oxford Companion to Food", BTW.

Never heard of it. I suppose there are a few items of food I've
missed, but not many!

This book is excellent, if you like reading food encyclopedias
(as I do). It's also known as the "Penguin Companion to Food".

BTW: I'm pretty sure you wouldn't know at least 1/4 of the terms
or definitions in this book. 1/2 the terms for the lesser
experienced folk.

Leicester
Lath
Luvar
Mabolo
Merenda
Ngapi Nut
Arracacha
Pandowdy
Paloodeh
Pain Perdu
Piddock
Fricandeau
Farl
Dormouse
Blewit
Bere Meal
Bestilla
bavaroise
Pleventinus (OK - I made that one up)

Now I now what all these are. Care for some more? ;-)

-=sw

Arri London said:

One kind host of mine in Somerset made a Christmas cake and forgot to
add the glycerin to the icing.

Most of us wouldn't even know how to find glycerin here in the
U.S. (at a drug store for $3 3/oz). We'd use Crisco instead
(pinging Bobo).

-sw

maxine in ri said:

My DH will use any kind of canned fish for his lunch, and yes, we've
had jack salmon here. Tastes like cat food. Don't know as I'd cover
it in powdered sugar, and it would overpower the almonds.

You mean mackerel?

I like it. It's cheaper than buying those small cans of sardines
and tastes just the same (subjective).

-sw