In Rosy's Christmas Kitchen Trivia Quiz

Answer: Cherries

Cherry Freezer Jam with its pretty red color will make a tasty and colorful gift at Christmas time. For this recipe, I will use bing cherries, some raspberries, lime juice, sugar and water. To make a freezer jam I will use no cook freezer pectin which can be found in my local supermarket or grocery store. No cook freezer pectin comes in 1.5 ounce packets.

Answer: All of these

Because olives are easy to digest, low in cholesterol, and high in Vitamin E, they are a good food to choose for my friend's gift. I will season the olives with different herbs, put them in a fancy jar, and keep them in the refrigerator. When it is time to make a Christmas visit to my friend, I will place the jar in the christmas gift basket.
This will be a tasty, healthy, and safely preserved home made gift.

Answer: Mint Pesto

Now I found this hard to believe, mint pesto in brownies? To my surprise as I scoured the Internet, I found that the majority of recipes for mint pesto were for lamb, chicken, pork, or on pasta, but there were a few recipes for mint pesto made to be served on fruit or in baking.

The recipe for brownies that I chose called for the mint pesto to be made with sugar and honey. This recipe also recommended mint pesto for a summertime treat poured over ice cream. It's a big hint to tell Seth that the secret ingredient can be used for pork, lamb, chicken, or over pasta but the better part of the brownie dessert will be in the tasting rather than the guessing.

Answer: Cauliflower

The flower buds of the cauliflower are called curds. My children liked it better when I said, please eat your pretty flowers, rather than please eat your curds. They knew Little Miss Muffet ate curds and whey and it was not cauliflower. More commonly curd is known as the solid part of milk that is separated usually done by adding rennet to the fresh milk. Curds can be made from cow, goat, or sheep's milk.

Answer: Trinidad Moruga Scorpion

Handle with care! The Trinidad Moruga Scorpion pepper has been said to be the hottest pepper in the world measured by the Scoville Scale. Capsaicin is the alkaloid found in peppers which gives them their heat. The Hot Salsa recipe I am using calls for a Habanera Chili pepper which comes from the Yucatan Peninsula and measures 100,000 to 300,000 heat units on the Scoville Scale.

This Habanera pepper sounds sufficiently hot enough for my son-in-law.

Answer: A toast to one's health especially during the Christmas season

A Wassail is a toast to one's health given when offered a drink of some kind usually during the Christmas season. The drink is commonly made of hot mulled cider. In England, during the Middle Ages, the peasants would gather together to visit the lord of the manor to wish him well and to sing Christmas carols. The lord usually responded to the carolers by rewarding them with treats of some kind.

In time, this tradition became associated with the Wassail Bowl. This drink is usually served in large goblets.

As I offer my neighbors a cup of hot cider from my Wassail Bowl, I will toast them with the words, "Love and joy will come to you, and to your wassail too....".

Answer: Soy Milk

The Molasses Bread recipe calls for soy milk for a lactose free loaf. It is relatively simple and inexpensive to make so I shall make ten loaves of it to donate to the parish charity. Soy milk is cholesterol free, low in saturated fat and high in protein. Molasses is a good source of the minerals iron, calcium, copper, and manganese.

A healthy Christmas treat for all! This bread, covered in plastic wrap tied with red or green ribbons will stay fresh for a goodly period of time.

Answer: Ground beef, steaks and roasts

Ground beef, steaks and roasts are the three general categories of beef. I shall purchase a Rolled Rib Roast of Beef. A Standing Rib Roast usually has seven ribs and can weigh sixteen pounds or more. I will have the butcher remove the ribs and use them as a rack for my roast when I put it into the oven.

This roast is a tender cut of beef and is fairly expensive. However I did not try to buy a Kobe beef roast which can cost upwards to three hundred dollars per pound in the United States. The Yorkshire Pudding, if it turns out perfectly, is really the family favorite of this Christmas dinner.

Answer: Bring a copy of the cookie recipe

There does not seem to be an original date nor a person responsible for developing the idea of a Cookie Exchange. My first experience of attending a Cookie Exchange was in the mid 1970s. Cookie Exchanges can be hosted by relatives, friends, neighbors, Women's Clubs, or church groups.

This event calls for the guests to divide up their cookies so that there are some for the table and some for the guests to take home. Their recipe cards are placed by the tray of their cookies. The Hostess usually has Christmas decorations up and plays Christmas music.

When the party is about to end, the guests take their provided plastic bags and go around the table with the diverse cookies made brought to the Cookie Exchange.

Answer: A Mocktail

My raspberry cooler recipe, although it calls for ginger beer ,contains no alcohol so this will be my mocktail served with cocktails. A mocktail is so named as it is an imitation of a cocktail. For guests who are pregnant, recovering alcoholics, or those adherent to their religious tenets plus those guests those who simply do not prefer alcoholic beverages, a mocktail is a fitting consideration of one's guests.

The Christmas Candy Cocktail calls for rimming the cocktail glass with smashed candy canes pieces and a miniature candy cane hung from the lip of the glass.

The candy canes will look holiday-like hung from my raspberry cooler mocktails as well.