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Pastry refers to a variety of doughs (often enriched with fat or eggs), as well as the sweet and savoury baked goods made from them. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] These goods are often called pastries as a synecdoche, and the dough may be accordingly called pastry dough for clarity. [ 4 ] Sweetened pastries are often described as bakers' confectionery.
Choux pastry, or pâte à choux (French: [pat a ʃu]), is a delicate pastry dough used in many pastries. The essential ingredients are butter, water, flour and eggs. Instead of a raising agent, choux pastry employs its high moisture content to create steam, as the water in the dough evaporates when baked, puffing the pastry.
The pastry is a light and flaky dough filled with a variety of sweet and savory fillings such as apricot, raspberry, prune, sweet cheese, poppy seed, or even a nut mixture. The Polish pastry is made from a unique dough that combines cream cheese with butter and flour.
@breadbakebeyond Upside-Down Puff Pastry with Garlic, Shallots, and Tomatoes Recipe for 4 pastries Ingredients: 1 sheet puff pastry dough 1 shallot - thinly sliced 6 garlic cloves - thinly sliced ...
A cruller (/ ˈkrʌlər /) is a deep-fried pastry popular in parts of Europe and North America. Regarded as a form of cake doughnut in the latter, it is typically either made of a string of dough that is folded over and twisted twice to create its signature shape, or formed from a rectangle of dough with a cut in the center allowing it to be ...
Puff pastry. Puff pastry, also known as pâte feuilletée, is a light, flaky pastry, its base dough (détrempe) composed of wheat flour and water. Butter or other solid fat (beurrage) is then layered into the dough. The dough is repeatedly rolled and folded, rested, re-rolled and folded, encasing solid butter between each resulting layer.
Danish pastry is made of yeast-leavened dough of wheat flour, milk, eggs, sugar, and large amounts of butter or margarine. [3]A yeast dough is rolled out thinly, covered with thin slices of butter between the layers of dough, and then the dough is folded and rolled several times, creating 27 layers.
Filo (Turkish: yufka) is a very thin unleavened dough used for making pastries such as baklava and börek in Middle Eastern and Balkan cuisines.Filo-based pastries are made by layering many sheets of filo brushed with oil or butter; the pastry is then baked.