The Cooling Power of Mint! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mint Jelly

Mint is often used on lamb dishes. In the Middle East, just mint is used. In Britain, mint sauce is used. In America, mint is often used to make a jelly that is put on the lamb.

Answer: Mint lemonade

Limonana is a drink made from freshly squeezed lemons and mint leaves. It was created in the early 1990s as a result of a fake advertising soft drink used in Israel.

Answer: White rum

The mint mojito is a drink that mixes white rum, sugar, lime juice, mint leaves, and sparkling water. To get the best flavor out of the mojito, it is a good idea to mash the leaves up in the bottom of your glass with the sugar and a small amount of liquid (be it rum or sparkling water). This "mulls" the mint, thus extracting as much flavor from them as possible.

Bourbon would be used in the making of a mint julep.

Answer: Whitemint

Though whitemint might be a flavor of minty gum, it is not actually a kind of mint. Catnip is also known as catmint, and is so named because of the euphoric affect it has on felines. Chocolate mint does indeed have a slight chocolate flavor, and wintergreen is also called wintermint.

Answer: Rice

Mochi balls are a Japanese dish made with sticky rice. Note that not just any rice works; the sticky rice is needed, or the rice will not form into a ball. To make mochi balls, you mash the sticky rice up with a mortar and pestle until it becomes thick and gummy. Sometimes vinegar is added.

The very sticky substance can be formed into balls and rolled into all sorts of delicious toppings, either for savory or sweet purposes. I like to wrap mine in mint leaves; but only after coating them lightly in powdered sugar.

Answer: Mashed Potatoes

Potatoes are vegetables known as tubers. Mashed potatoes, therefore, use tubers. Rosemary is commonly used with fried potatoes or potato wedges, but can also be very good in mashed potatoes. Mint is also a good herb to use with any potato dish.

Answer: Pesto

Pesto is commonly made with pesto, olive oil, pine nuts, garlic, and parmesan. These are essential items to make pesto (though either garlic or parmesan can be taken out if one does not like such items). Mint makes a great addition to any pesto, though. I implore you to try it!

Answer: Soup

Gazpacho is a delicious cold soup made from tomatoes. Peppers, cucumbers, garlic, vinegar, and countless other ingredients are often used. Adding mint makes the already refreshing dish (it is cold soup, after all) even more refreshing.

Answer: Food coloring

Typically, mint ice cream is made using the oils from the mint, or even with a mint extract, and not the leaves themselves. Even if the leaves are used, the ice cream usually becomes green due to the addition of food coloring. Mint leaves themselves do not color anything green.

Answer: Pillow Mints

Pillow mints are soft, light, and airy (but yet hard and crunchy; believe me, that would make sense if you've had them) mints designed as a party candy or an after-dinner mint.

York Peppermint Patties and Junior Mints are both candies made with creamy mint filling coated in chocolate. Andes mints could be called "peppermint bark", which is a piece of chocolate with a layer of mint flavor on top.