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Chapter 25, , Spicy Riddles

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A.Solve these riddles:, 1.I can be powdered fine. I make food, hot and spicy. If too much of me is, added, your eyes and nose may begin to, water and you cry!, 2.Grind me and powder me to make your, food look yellow. I am mixed in oil by, granny and applied to wounds. I heal all, your wounds-big and small., 3.Small and round like a pearl, I am black, when I am whole. A sharp and spicy taste, is mine. Whether it is sweet or salty, I am, added as a special treat., 4.I am a small and skinny chap. Sometimes, I am brown and sometimes black. Added, to hot oil and ghee. I spread my fragrance, all around when I am roasted. Curd and, jaljeera are favourite to me., 5.I look like zeera though green am l. To, make your stomach healthy I always try. Eat, , Red Chilly, , Turmeric, , Black, pepper, cumin, , Fennel

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me after your meal, I refresh your mouth,, you surely feel., , I look like a nail but a bud am l. Chocolate, brown colour and a strong smell have l., When your toothache make you shout, I, soothe the ain in your mouth., , Clove

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B.Answer these questions, Q. 1 Name one spice which is put into both sweet and, , salty things?, And- Black pepper is the spice which is put both sweet and, salty things., Q.2 Find out what is put into food to make its taste sour?, , Ans- Mango powder is put into food to make its taste sour., Q.3 Name any four spices grown in Kerala., , Ans- Following spices are grown in Kerala:, , (a) Tejpatta, (b) Small cardamom, (c) Big cardamom, (d) Black pepper, Q.4 What is Garam Masaala? What are its ingredients?, , Ans- Garam Masala is a powder of a mixture of several, spices such as cardamom (small and big), clove, zeera, seeds, cinnamon, black pepper, dry ginger etc., , C.Fill in the blanks:, (Red Chilli, Fennel seeds, Turmeric, Black pepper, Clove), , (1) Turmeric is used to make the food look yellow., (2) Black pepper is a small and round like a pearl., (3) Red Chilly make the food hot and spicy.

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(4) Clove looks like a nail but it is a bud., (5) Fennel seeds keeps our stomach healthy