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