Is the second meal to be

served after the soup. You must be

able to know the nature of every
appetizer to be served for the
appropriate ocassion and this
lesson will teach you how to
prepare a variety.
Appetizers are classified into
7 and these are :
 FRIES

Barbeque Chicken Bites

MEAT BALLS
Pickled Items

Raw Vegetables
Strawberry Fruit Dip

Fried Tofu With Soya

Carrot Soup

Chicken Enchilada Soup

 Hors d’ oeuvres may be served at
the table;for ex. As a part of the sit-
down meal; or they may be served
before sitting at the table. Hors d’
oeuvres prior to a meal are either
stationary or passed hors d’ oeuvres
are also reffered to as butler style.
 A Canape is a small,prepared and usually
decorative Hors d’oeuvres , held in the fingers and
often eatened in one bite. Because they are often
served during cocktail hours , it is often desired that
a canape be either salty or spicy in order to
encourage guest to drink or eat more.A canape may
also be referred to as finger food,although not all
finger food are canapes. Crackers or small slices of
bread or toast or puff pastry,cut into various
shapes,serve as the base for savory butters or
pastes,often topped with canopy of such savory food
as meat,cheese,fish,caviar,foie gras,purees or relish.
 These are traditional French appetizaers
comprised of grated raw vegetables
soaked in vinaigrette.Crudites often
include carrot sticks,pepper strips,celery
sticks and asparagus in much the same
way as the English word “crude”, from
Latin. The Latin word “crudus” simply
means raw. After that, it was refined to
“Cruditas”,which means “undigested
food” and then on to “crudie” in French.
Snack food (commonly shortened to snack)
is seen inWestern culture as a type of food
not meant to be eaten as a main meal of
the day. Rather it is intended to assuage a
person’s hunger between meals, providing
a brief supply of energy for the body, or as
a food item consumed between meals
purely for the enjoyment of its taste.It
includes chips, cookies and other finger
food available in the refrigeratoror
convenience store.
 Cheese is a solid made from the milk of
cows,goats,sheep and other mammals.
Cheese is made by coagulating milk by
first acidification with a bacterial
culture and then employing an enzyme,
rennet to congulate the milk to “curds
and whey”.The precise bacteria and
processing of the curds play a role in
defining the texture and flavor of most
cheeses also feature molds, either on the
outer rind or throughtout.
Sausage is a type of food usually consisting of ground
meat,animal fat,salt and spices and sometimes other
ingredients such as herbs, sometimes packed in a
casing.Sausage making is a very old food preservation
technique

Historically the casing has been the intestines of the

animal,though it is nnow generally synthetic.Sausage
may be fresh or preserved by curing or smoking.

There is no consensus on whether similar products that

are not packed in casing such as pate,meatloaf,scrapple
and head cheese should be considered sausages.Besides
being eaten on its own,sausage is also used as an
ingredient in other foods.
Dumplings are meat with coating of starch
and are seasoned with herbs and spices to
tickle your palate and taste buds.

Dumplings may be any of a wide variety of

dihes,both sweet and savoury in several
different cuisines.They either made from
balls of dough or are small parcels of food
encased in pastry,dough or leaves they
usually undergo a further treatment by
steaming them or submerging them in
boiling oil.
 A Bruschetta is a food originated in central Italy
during the 15th century.It consists of grilled
bread rubbed with garlic and topped with extra
virgin olive oil,salt and pepper.Variations may
include toppings of spicy red pepper,
tomato,vegetables,beans,cured meat, and/or
cheese; the most popular American recipe
involves basil,fresh,mozzarella and
tomato.Bruschetta is usually served as a snack or
appetizer.In Tuscany,bruschetta is called
fettunta,meaning “oiled slice”.