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List of pastries. Pastries are small buns made using a stiff dough enriched with fat. Some dishes, such as pies, are made of a pastry casing that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet or savory ingredients. The five basic types of pastry dough (a food that combines flour and fat) are shortcrust pastry, filo pastry, choux ...
Mille-feuille. A mille-feuille (French: [mil fœj]; lit. 'thousand-sheets'), [notes 1] also known by the names Napoleon in North America, [1][2] vanilla slice in the United Kingdom, and custard slice, is a French dessert made of puff pastry layered with pastry cream. Its modern form was influenced by improvements made by Marie-Antoine Carême.
Puffery. 1881 Italian ad for Cannabis indica cigarillos, promising to "stop the most violent attacks of asthma, nervous cough, colds, extinction of voice, facial neuralgia and insomnia, and to combat all laryngeal and respiratory ailments." In colloquial language, puffery refers to exaggerated or false praise. [1]
Levant. is a kind of fried-dough Levantine pastry similar to doughnut holes, made of deep fried dough, soaked in sugar syrup or honey and cinnamon, and sometimes sprinkled with sesame. Bambalouni. Tunisia. A sweet donut, made from frying dough in oil, eaten with sugar on top or honey. Bamiyeh, zulbiā, ballıbadı.
The Chiko roll consists of beef, celery, cabbage, barley, carrot, corn, onion, green beans, and spices in a tube of egg, flour and dough which is then deep-fried. Chimichanga. A deep-fried burrito that is popular in Southwestern U.S. cuisine, Tex-Mex cuisine, and the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Sonora.
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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.
Baozi – Filled bun in various Chinese and Chinese-influenced cuisines. Bagiya – Dumpling delicacy in India and Nepal - Nepalese steam rice flour dumpling. Beef Wellington – Filet steak with pâté and duxelles in shortcrust pastry. Blodpalt – Northern Finnish dumplings made with flour and blood.