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FOOD QUIZ/ Secret Ingredients?

chubbyalaskagriz

chubbyalaskagriz

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Many yummy dishes we enjoy have rather surprising "secret" ingredients.

Years ago, I remember it odd finding a recipe for moist chocolate cake that called for Hellmann's Mayonnaise. Another Chocolate Cake called for VINEGAR... another for Campbell's Tomato Soup.

I remember as a youngster how weird I thought it that most eggroll recipes use peanut butter to bind together their fillings... Also- there was a post some time back about Paula Deen's Fudge that called for VELVEETA!

What recipes do YOU use that call for unorthodox ingredients that might surprise some?

Also, here's a fun food QUIZ- Click & Try it! Maybe you'll be stumped!

Recipes - Trivia Quiz: Strange Ingredients - ArcaMax Publishing
 
Hey, I only got 7 correct. :(

Question 4, btw, does not have the correct answer. Kishki is a Jewish sausage-type dish. Because pork is forbidden them, the filling goes into the large intestine of either a cow or a lamb.

Odd, now that you bring it up. I know there were ingredients that I thought were strange or unorthodox at the time. But I can't recall a specific instance.

I'm always more surprised, I think, at the differences technique can make in a final dish. Such as separating eggs for a noodle pudding. Or crushing spices in a mortar, by hand, instead of grinding them in a coffee mill.

We don't really know what searing does to a piece of meat. But it makes a difference to the final taste, that's for sure. And baba ganoujh made from eggplants that have been charred over a charcoal fire is not the same dish when the eggplants are charred in the oven, or over a gas flame.

Etc.
 
I always thought searing was a way to cauterize the meat so as to keep the juices from running out so much during cooking.

As for secret ingredients, I myself and always surprised how many prepared/semi-prepared foods contain corn in some shape or form.
 
Jafo we all grew up with the idea that searing seals the meat to prevent juices from escaping.

Turns out that's wrong. Several food-scientists and writers have done extensive work on that topic. Searing caremalizes the surfaces, and makes it taste better. But it doesn't actually seal it.

And it has some effect internally, because if you take two of the same cuts, sear one but not the other, and otherwise cook them the same, the seared one willl taste differently internally as well as at the surface.

To the best of my knowledge, there hasn't been an explanation for that taste difference. Which is why I said we don't know what searing does, except make the meat taste good.

>I only got 5 correct! I guess I'm a dumbazz! <

Nah. Just means I guess gooder than you. ;)
 
Dang - Mama messed up - I got 9 out of 10 - screwed up on the first one! Must be getting old - but then again - I don't do dynamite - concrete is more like it! LOL
 
I know mama and cath- I selected GUM for the dynamite question! Granted, don't make a lick a' sense to me, but then neither does 'peanuts'!
 
Now, CanMan... the numbers tell us one can do worse than I (I got only half correct!) but really, you didn't did you? For a moment there I was actually starting to pride myself on having the lowest score! Maybe I'll re-take the exam and cross my fingers that I come up with even more pitiful guesses this time 'round!
 
Now this was my reasoning and deduction to arriving at the sugar as the answer to the dynamite question: There was a big old sugar factory that was incinersted not too long ago, remember hearing about it on the headlines. So I naturally assumed that would be right- with sugar being so flammable and all- right? WRONG!!!

P-nut's that has gotta be wrong, and after all KYH did find a wrong answer with the Jewish sausage.................

I tend to believe that the people who made that test are in error:D And we are all JUST A OK & way too intellegent to be taking such a silly error filled test to begin with:cool::D;)

P.S. Do you get the impression I like those smiley faces? Well you are right, I do, see how smart you are!!!
 
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I got 6 of the 10 and I too thought of sugar in the 1st question as it is so flammable. However, peanuts have a lot of oil?
 
Y'all recall learning about George Washington Carver and his work with peanuts?

There ain't a whole lot that they can't be used for.
 
I only got 5 correct! I'm starting to believe that ignorance really is bliss. The more "secret" ingredients I find out, the more I don't want to eat them!
 
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