Southern Cooking Quiz

[WormGuy]

This is a quiz about southern cooking, below are the 10 questions. Tonight I will post the answers if anyone wants to try them.

 

 

1. The base flavoring for benne wafers is?

a. Vanilla

b. Chocolate

c. Sesame seed

d. Molasses

 

2. What do you call the liquid released for collard greens as they are cooked?:

a. Potlikker

b. Collard cola

c. Green gumbo

d. Hock sauce

 

3. Hoppin' John is a dish of rice and what?

a. Lima beans

b. Green beans

c. Pinto beans

d. Black-eyed peas

 

4. The traditonal topping for southern style bananna pudding is?

a. Benne wafers

b. Vanilla wafers

c. Pecan sandies

d. Butter cookies

 

5. "Chitlins and Maw" are what parts of the animal respectively?

a. Pig intestines and cow stomach

b. Cow intestines and pig stomach

c. Pig intestines and pig stomach

d. Cow intestines and cow stomach

 

6. Sorghum is a type of?

a. Grain

b. Vegetable

c. Fruit

d. Candy

 

7. Pimento Cheese is?

a. A semi hard cow's milk with pimento peppers

b. A type of spread consisting mainly of mayonnaise, sharp cheddar cheese and pimento peppers

c. A melted cheese dip similar to queso that is speckled with pimento peppers

 

8. Chicken fried steak and Country fried steak are the same dish.

a. True

b. False

 

9. What is the most recommended cooking vesssel for cornbread?

a. Deep fryer

b. Dutch oven

c. Muffin pan

d. Cast iron skillet

 

10. When ground, hominy is called what?

a. Porridge

b. Oatmeal

c. Muesli

d. Grits

 

 

 

John

[Cat]

I believe, without looking them up, that I know 7 conclusively.

 

Can't wait till you post answers... I don't want to "cheat" and look them up.

[WormGuy]

I missed one when I took it. I thought this would be fun for everyone and a learning tool maybe at the same time. Might make some want to try a few new dishes.

 

 

 

John

[Annarchy]

 

Ok, my "Southern" cooking is TexMex, so I am sure I missed most of them. A few wild guesses may have scored 2.

[MamaHill]

I only know 6. Can't wait to see the answers...

 

Great quiz!!

[Virginia]

I think I know most of them, but have never heard of benne wafers. Baby talk for vanilla?

 

My sister and I yesterday were saying that most old southern cooks used two spices, salt and pepper. I can remember when we first had garlic, it was bread and it was wonderful. We did use cinnamon at Christmas, of course.

[Fullpantry]

I knew 6 for sure. Never heard of Benne wafers either???

[mommato3boys]

Benne Wafers are actually THIN sesame seed cookies made with butter and brown sugar. Can't remember the exact recipe have it at home and I am at work. They were usually served with tea when people visited.

 

 

And since I am suthern country girl I will let you guess how many I got correct.

[Ambergris]

Southern here.

[Midnightmom]

Not sure I'd want to eat "Chitlin's and Maw" no matter which animal(s) they previously belonged to!!!

[Deerslayer]

Pure Southern here I think it comes from being raised like I was!!! Really Country!!!!

[WormGuy]

The answer's are:

 

1. Sesame seed

 

2. Potlikker

 

3. Black Eyed peas

 

4. Vanilla wafers

 

5. Pig intestines & pig stomach

 

6. Grain

 

7. A type of spread mainly of mayo, cheddar cheese & pimento peppers

 

8. False

 

9. Cast iron

 

10. Grits

 

 

How many did you get right?

 

 

 

John

[gofish]

5

[Cat]

I got them *all* right???

 

 

OK... to be honest, I guessed on #1 because I never heard of them, but I figured a "wafer" would be seed-based here.

 

#8 almost threw me, but it's a 50-50 chance. I guessed they were different, or it wouldn't be on the quiz.

 

And we have Pimento cheese as a spread here, too, so I hoped it was the same thing. It is.

 

Thanks, WG!!

 

 

 

**Adding it to my list of dumb things I have to feel smart about...**

[snapshotmiki]

9 right. Missed the first one. I'm from FL and raised "in the sticks".

[AMarthaByHeart]

Got 8 right. I missed 1 and 8. Here we always eat chicken fried steak----never heard of country fried steak so evidently did not know what it was. Now WHAT is it? Always wanted to use that face, so I thought I would try it.

[Amishway Homesteaders]

I got a ZERO on the test

Guess you all know what I don't cook?

[themartianchick]

I got 7 and I'm as northern as they come! However, my dad was raised in Florida, so we always had grits in the house. A few folks around here (southern transplants) still make corn bread in a cast iron skillet and although I don't eat pork, some of the markets around here sell all manner of pig parts!

 

(I will never forget the first time I saw a freezer case full of pig heads! I was traumatized because they looked exactly like the pig puppets used on the Muppet Show. I was raised on their "Pigs In Space" skits.)

[Momo]

I knew nine...missed the first one though.

 

I guess 34 years in Bama is enough to make me a true southerner.

[Virginia]

Seeing the post about pigs heads reminds me of the thime DD (about 7 or 8 then) saw me pull a baked chicken from the oven. She exclaimed, "Its a REAL chicken!". Don't know what she thought we had been eating fried.

[indy gal preps]

Hey you all need to start watching Paula Deen on the food network then you would have known all the answers!