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