I Get the Bigger Half! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Twice

Biscotti biscuits originated in the Italian city of Prato. Twice baked foods were a staple of the ancient Roman army. Biscotti dough often has almonds added to it, and after the first baking is cut into oblong slices. Then it is baked again. The extent to which it is baked the second time determines how dry and crispy it is.

Answer: Black cherries

Clafouti (or clafoutis in France) is made by placing black cherries on a buttered dish and placing a batter on top. Then it is baked and dusted with sugar, before being served. Other fruits, like cranberries and apples, can be used, but black cherries are most common.

Answer: Rosh Hashanah

Lekach is often eaten in the hopes of securing a good New Year. The recipes for Lekach cakes often vary as some can be 'dense' cakes and some 'light and fluffy'. In any case, the dish must be sweet as the sweetness is important for its symbolic value heading into the New Year. Cinnamon, allspice, brown sugar, honey and fruits are often popular choices to provide a sweet experience.

Answer: Battered and deep fried

The banana is often battered with a flour-based mixture. The banana is covered in the batter and then immersed in the rather hot frying oil, turned until it is browned on all sides. Although it is popular in all of Indonesia, it often goes by different names depending on the location. For example it is called 'godoh gerang' in Bali and 'cau gorent' in West Java.

Answer: Shoofly pie

Shoofly pie might be so named as the flies are attracted to the molasses and must be 'shooed' away. There is a 'wet bottom' and 'dry bottom' version. The 'dry bottom' version produces a filling which has more of a cake-like consistency. Shoofly pie is actually quite similar to treacle tart, but treacle tart uses golden syrup rather than molasses. Note that since molasses are the thick by-product of processing sugar, shoofly pie is generally both sweet and bitter. Or, bittersweet, as some might prefer to say.

Answer: Cake

Basboosa is a cake made with semolina flour. They are often small and bite-sized snacks, and an almond is often placed on top of them when they are sliced into squares. Some sugar, yoghurt and coconut are often used to sweeten and flavour the cake mix. When the cake has been baked, often it is soaked in a floral or lemon syrup before being served.

Answer: Grand Marnier

The ability to set the crepe suzette sauce alight makes it a popular choice in French restaurants. The sauce is usually orange-based, hence why Grand Marnier is a popular choice, although Cointreau and Triple Sec are fine alternatives. It is said that crepe suzette was made by accident by Henri Carpenter, an assistant who was cooking for the Prince of Wales (to be King Edward VII of England).

It was originally to be called crepe princesse, however the Prince of Wales requested it be named crepe suzette, after his companion at the time.

Answer: It has not been whipped

Western ice-cream is often whipped before it is frozen, incorporating air into the mix. This makes the frozen ice-cream less dense, but is also a cost-cutting measure as, of course, air costs very little. Therefore, kulfi is not necessarily an ice-cream in the same sense as Western ice-creams, but there are similarities.

To make kulfi, a mixture of evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk and double cream has sugar added to it and is then boiled which accounts for a part of its density. A cornstarch mixture is added to further thicken the mixture, before it is flavoured with cardamom, saffron, mango or other fruits. It is then frozen in moulds before being served.

Answer: Its dried fruit

Spotted dick is a suet-based pudding which often uses currants. These currants give the appearance of spots, hence how the term 'spotted' is believed to have come into its name. As for 'dick', the theory goes that the word is a corruption of 'dough' or 'dog' as there is also a dessert called 'spotted dog'.

Although in England some people have tried renaming the dessert, it has not, as yet, worked and its name remains to stand tall and proud.

Answer: Eve's pudding

Eve's pudding may be so named for its use of apples, which many believe to be the forbidden fruit in the story of Adam and Eve in the Bible (although the fruit itself is not specifically named in the Bible). A cake mixture isn't always used in its production, however the defining feature are apple slices placed at the bottom of the dish before it is baked with cake mixture or batter. If cake mixture (or similar) is used, it will be light and fluffy.

The stewed apples sometimes have cinnamon added to them to enhance their flavour, but otherwise are mostly left as they are. Once the pudding is cooked, ice-cream or custard makes for a tasty, appetising finishing touch.