If we get the answers right, do we get to lick the bowl?

Did this quiz make you hungry? Here are the answers.

Fill in the blanks in these literary quotes about baking.

1. Baking is like washing: the results are equally temporary. (Patricia Briggs)
2. Out of love I made you a cake. Also out of milk, eggs, flour, sugar, and vanilla. (Jarod Kintz)
3. Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes. (Elizabeth Gaskell)
4. Pecans are not cheap, my hons. In fact, in the South, the street value of shelled pecans just before holiday baking season is roughly that of crack cocaine . Do not confuse the two. It is almost impossible to make a decent crack cocaine tassie, I am told. (Celia Rivenbark)
5. Never promise to make pie and fail to deliver on that promise. (Kate Lebo)
6. If you love peanut butter pie, you are either Dolly Parton or someone who loves her. (Kate Lebo)
7. Love just doesn't sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new.(Ursula K LeGuin)
8. Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. (Yiddish proverb)
9. A party without cake is just a meeting. (Julia Child)
10. Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously. (Lee De Forest)

We're sure you got those all right. Think of those quotes the next time you pass a bakery – or your kitchen.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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