Quiz answers

1. From the point of view of safety, knives should always be kept sharp. You can do this with either a grooved steel or a smooth carborundum stone.

2. Canapé Ivanhoe may be topped with mushrooms instead of pickled walnuts, but for Ritchie the creamed haddock is topped with cheese and grilled.

3. For bunga rampi, the leaves are finely cut and mixed with petals. This is sometimes used as a perfumed decoration in religious processions.

4. Operating costs are those incurred in the day-to-day running of the business, which will include wages and other overheads.

5. This is coffee ice-cream, scooped spoonfuls of which are served in a timbale of crushed ice. This method is often used when ice-cream is offered with other desserts.

6. (a) Frozen (b) canned (c) pickled and (d) salted.

7. Lay the person chest down, with the head on the side to prevent choking in the event of vomiting. The left leg is straight and the right is pulled up into a right angle at the knee.

8. Macaire potatoes are not boiled; all the other methods are used. The potatoes are baked, scooped out and mashed with butter. Moulded into cakes, they are then fried.

9. Nutmeg is normally sprinkled on top, but the vital ingredient is rennet which causes the milk to coagulate.

10. Lake Erie and Lake Ontario are separated by the famous Niagara Falls. It is around this area that most of the wine production is centred.

11. (a) Grilling, frying and roasting (b) sauté, braising, roasting and escalopes and (c) stock, braising, sauté, roasting and for osso buco.

12. Also used when preparing veal piccata, it may be made with a variety of added flavours of fruits, nuts and chocolate. It comes from Sicily.

13. If the driver was prevented from completing the journey due to an emergency, he or she would have your implied authority to act on your behalf, and this would be binding.

14. The recipe for au gratin requires the cheese to be mixed with béchamel sauce and poured over the spaghetti. In the Italienne recipe, the grated cheese is served separately.

15. The curry powder should be added at the beginning of the cooking process, allowing the full flavour to enhance the dish.