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Herbs and spices_JD

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    How great is your knowledge about herbs and spices?
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  • Pepper can have different colours. Black and green come from unripe fruit and red and white come from ripe fruit. True or false?
    True!
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  • There are about 30 different types of this plant. The most popular are pepper, apple, Maroccan and chocolate. What plant is it?
    mint
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  • The bark of a tree is used to make: cinnamon or ginger or nutmeg. Choose wisely!
    cinnamon
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  • One of the plants is parsley and one is cilantro. Do you know which is which?
    1 - parsley, 2 - cilantro
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  • What's this herb? It's often grown in pots and its shredded leaves are sprinkled over tomatoes.
    basil (bazylia)
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  • What's this plant? It is very common! You only eat the parts of the plant which grow underground. Only the name in English will be accepted!
    garlic
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  • What is this plant? It's one of the ingredients in curry. It gives curry its characteristic colour.
    Turmuric
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  • You can eat both, the seeds and the whole plant. It's... (give the name in English if you can)
    fennel - koper włoski
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  • Have you ever eaten pizza without this herb? Of course not! What is it?
    oregano
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  • Put the names of the plants in order as they are shown in the picture: thyme, rosemary and majoram.
    1 - rosemary, 2 - thyme, 3 - majoram
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  • What's the plant in the picture? It's very aromatic and often used to relieve toothache. We eat its unripe dried fruit. Give the name in English or Polish.
    clove
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  • The spice you see in the picture is nutmeg (gałka musztatołowa). As the name suggests we eat its nuts but do the nuts grow on the tree (like walnuts) or underground (like peanuts)?
    They grow on the tree like walnuts.
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  • The seeds you see in the picture are called what? We use them for their aromatic oils which you know from gingerbread. Can you guess their Polish name?
    aniseed or star anise
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  • Here are two ginger plants. Which part of the plant is used as spice? Its roots or flowers?
    roots
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  • Bay leaf. Does it grow as a small bush or a tree?
    a tree - it can even reach a height of 8 metres!
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  • Pepper - you know its sweet taste. Do you grind its seeds or dry fruit?
    dry fruit
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