- 1. What is the principal ingredient in a peanut butter cookie?
A) Chocolate chips
B) Cashew butter
C) Peanut butter
D) Almond butter
- 2. In which country did the peanut butter cookie originate?
A) Canada
B) Australia
C) United States
D) United Kingdom
- 3. When does the development of the peanut butter cookie date back to?
A) 1940s
B) 1900s
C) 1910s
D) 1920s
- 4. Who was a well-known promoter of the peanut as a crop replacement?
A) Benjamin Franklin
B) Mary Morton
C) George Washington Carver
D) Thomas Edison
- 5. What crop was heavily damaged by the boll weevil, leading to the promotion of peanuts?
A) Wheat
B) Soybeans
C) Corn
D) Cotton
- 6. In what year was George Washington Carver's research bulletin published?
A) 1930
B) 1925
C) 1920
D) 1932
- 7. How many peanut recipes were compiled by George Washington Carver?
A) 100
B) 105
C) 50
D) 150
- 8. What ingredient did Carver's 1925 cookie recipes call for instead of peanut butter?
A) Crushed or chopped peanuts
B) Peanut oil
C) Peanut extract
D) Peanut flour
- 9. When was peanut butter first listed as an ingredient in these cookies?
A) 1940s
B) Late 1920s
C) 1925
D) Early 1930s
- 10. How were early peanut butter cookies prepared before fork marks were common?
A) Baked in muffin tins
B) Fried in a pan
C) Rolled thin or dropped as balls
D) Pressed into molds
- 11. When were the earliest references to criss-cross fork marks published?
A) 1928
B) 1925
C) Early summer 1932
D) 1935
- 12. Which newspaper published a recipe with fork marks on July 1, 1932?
A) Camden Courier-Post
B) New York Times
C) Washington Post
D) Schenectady Gazette
- 13. What did the fork-pressed patterns resemble according to the early recipes?
A) Criss-cross stitches
B) Diamond shapes
C) Squares on waffles
D) Checkerboard patterns
- 14. What is the earliest known publication date for the recipe with fork marks?
A) July 1, 1932
B) May 20, 1932
C) August 15, 1932
D) June 13, 1932
- 15. Who wrote the syndicated column that contained the earliest known recipe for fork-marked cookies?
A) George Washington Carver
B) Mrs. Mary Morton
C) Betty Crocker
D) Martha Stewart
- 16. Which company helped popularize the use of a fork in the 1930s?
A) Nestle
B) Kellogg's
C) General Mills
D) Pillsbury
- 17. Why is it necessary to press peanut butter cookie dough with a fork?
A) To remove excess air
B) The dough is dense and needs help to cook evenly
C) To enhance the peanut flavor
D) To make the cookies thinner
- 18. What tool can be used as an alternative to a fork for pressing cookie dough?
A) A spoon
B) A rolling pin
C) A knife
D) Cookie shovel or spatula
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