Food and Cooking

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Round Italian dish with cheese and toppings (5)
  2. 4. Stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning (6)
  3. 5. Long yellow fruit with a peel (6)
  4. 7. An edible ___ made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods (5)
  5. 9. A smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked (plural) (7)
  6. 12. Cultivated in temperate regions (plural) (7)
  7. 13. Small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda (plural) (8)
  8. 15. Corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat (7)

Down

  1. 1. Round red or green fruit that grows on trees (5)
  2. 2. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food (plural) (5)
  3. 4. Perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible (6)
  4. 6. Thin fried slices of potato eaten as a snack (5)
  5. 8. Informal terms for money (plural) (7)
  6. 10. Mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable (plural) (8)
  7. 11. Any of various plants of the genus Lactuca (7)
  8. 14. A small ring-shaped friedcake (5)