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Known as a "cream puff" in the United States, a profiterole is a choux pastry ball filled with whipped cream, pastry cream, or ice cream. This treat is typically very sweet. The puffs may be decorated or left plain or garnished with chocolate sauce, caramel, or a dusting of powdered sugar. Puff pastry: Europe
A pie filled with a mixture of diced beef, diced kidney (often of ox, lamb, or pork), fried onion, and brown gravy. Steak pie: United Kingdom: Savory A meat pie made from stewing steak and beef gravy, enclosed in a pastry shell. Strawberry pie: Worldwide Sweet A pie filled with strawberries, sometimes topped with whipped cream. Strawberry ...
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.
The profiteroles we know today, using choux pastry, were created in the 19th century. Jules Gouffé in his Livre de cuisine [12] (1870) explains that a profiterole is a small choux pastry. Gustave Garlin in Le Cuisinier moderne [13] (1887) mentions profiteroles filled with cream and glazed with chocolate or coffee, worked to be smooth and shiny.
Puff pastry is made using a laminated dough consisting of flour, butter, salt, and water. The pastry rises up due to the water and fats expanding as they turn into steam upon heating. [23] Puff pastry come out of the oven light, flaky, and tender. Choux pastry Choux pastry is a very light pastry that is often filled with cream.
An assortment of petit fours, which are small confectioneries.Some petit fours are also savory. Religieuse is made of two choux pastry cases filled with crème pâtissière, [5] covered in a ganache of the same flavor as the filling, and then joined/decorated with piped whipped cream.
Feel like a French pastry chef when you learn how to make pastry cream (or creme patisserie) in your own kitchen. The post How to Make Pastry Cream from Scratch appeared first on Taste of Home.
An oblong pastry filled with a cream and topped with icing. Gougère: Savory France A baked savory pastry made of choux dough mixed with cheese. Karpatka: Sweet Poland: A cake made of one sheet of short pastry on the bottom and one sheet of choux pastry on the top (or two sheets of choux pastry), filled with custard or buttercream. Usually ...