Meat Products

Question 1

List the different types of meat products on the market. (8)

Answer 1

Fresh sausage

Cooked sausage

Dried sausage

Beef burgers

Meat extractives

Paté

Cold cooked meat

Gelatine

Question 2

How many different types of sausage are there?

Answer 2

Three

Question 3

What are the three different types of sausage?

Answer 3

Fresh sausage

Cooked sausage

Dried sausage

Question 4

What is fresh sausage made from?

6

Answer 4

Raw meat

Fat

Water

Fillers (wheat flour, rusk and corn starch)

Flavourings

All in a casing made from synthetic collagen

Question 5

What are the common fillers in fresh sausage?

3

Answer 5

Wheat flour

Rusk

Corn starch

Question 6

What is the casing of a fresh sausage made from?

Answer 6

Synthetic collagen

Question 7

Give three examples of cooked sausages

Answer 7

Black pudding

White pudding

Frakfurters

Question 8

What are cooked sausages made from?

Answer 8

Similar ingredients to fresh sausages with additional ingredients such as oatmeal and pig’s blood in black pudding

Question 9

What are the additional ingredients in black pudding?

Answer 9

Oatmeal and pig’s blood

Question 10

Give two examples of dried sausage.

Answer 10

Salami

Pepperoni

Question 11

What are dried sausage made from?

Answer 11

Meat that is cured, minced and mixed with other ingredients, e.g. chilli and then dried

Question 12

What are beef burgers made from?

6

Answer 12

Minced beef

Beef fat

Wheat flour

Water

Seasoning

All moulded into a circular shape

Question 13

Give two examples of meat extractives.

Answer 13

Stock cubes

Gravy powder

Question 14

How are meat extractives made?

Answer 14

They are made from meat juice extractives that are dried and mixed with corn flour, salt, yeast extract and flavour enhancers

Question 15

List the ingredients in meat extractives.

5

Answer 15

Meat juice extractives
Corn flour
Salt
Yeast extract
Flavour enhancers

Question 16

Give an example of a paté.

Answer 16

Chicken liver paté

Question 17

How is paté made?

Answer 17

A mixture of fat, flavouring, cooked ground meat and liver

Minced into a spreadable paste

Question 18

What are the ingredients in paté?

4

Answer 18

Fat
Flavouring
Cooked ground meat
Cooked ground liver

Question 19

Give some examples of cold cooked meat.

4

Answer 19

Ham
Turkey
Corned beef
Luncheon roll

Question 20

How is cold cooked meat made?

Answer 20

It is made from a mixture of meat, fillers and flavourings, e.g. spices

Question 21

List the ingredients in cold cooked meat.

3

Answer 21

Meat
Fillers
Flavourings, e.g. spices

Question 22

What is gelatine?

Answer 22

A colourless, tasteless and odourless setting agent made from the boiled bones, skins and tendons of animals

Question 23

What is gelatine used for?

Answer 23

It is used to thicken and stabilise desserts such as jellies, soufflés and cheesecakes

Question 24

What forms can gelatine come in?

2

Answer 24

Leaf form

Powdered form

Question 25

What are the ingredients in gelatine?

3

Answer 25

Boiled bones
Skins
Tendons of animals

Question 26

What desserts use gelatine?

3

Answer 26

Jellies
Soufflés
Cheesecakes