Culinary Quiz

1. Gooseberries are available in which four colours? How do their uses differ?

2. Strawberries are at their best served fresh. Traditionally, which type of sugar should accompany them and which liquid other than cream?

3. A member of the French Resistance, Canon Kir, popularized a drink by adding another beverage to cräme de cassis. What was it?

4. Raspis is grown in four colours: black, yellow, white and red. By what name is it better known?

5. The blackberry and the raspberry are thought to have first crossed in a judge's garden in Santa Cruz. Which berry did this produce?

6. What is the name of the famous US berry - used to make pies and muffins - which is related to the British bilberry?

7. Which fruit is a member of the nightshade family and is also known as the Chinese lantern?

8. What is the berry used to make a sauce at Christmas and Thanksgiving, that got its name because it resembled a bird?

9. Gooseberries are traditionally served with which fowl and which fish?

10. Why is it better to brush strawberries clean rather than wash them?

11. In France, wild strawberries are traditionally eaten after being covered in a left-over wine. Which wine is it?

12. Which type of berry is used to make the sauce that is poured over a peach melba?

13. Superstition says that the first of these berries each year will remove warts. Which berry is this and who is said to spit on the last of the crop?

14. Known by the Romans as the Carthage apple and now used to make grenadine, this is more a fruit than a berry. What is it?

15. In the title of the 1960s film, which bush did they go round?