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Pastry weights
Also known as baking beans these are small ceramic or metal shapes used to weigh down pastry in a flan tin when baking it blind (without a filling). Dried beans or peas work just as well as ceramic or metal shapes.

 


Pastry
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general name for baked articles of food made of paste or having paste as a necessary ingredient. The name is also used for the paste itself.

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Pastry is the name given to various kinds of dough made from ingredients such as flour, butter, shortening, baking powder and/or eggs that are rolled out thinly and used as the base for baked goods.

Pastry Blender:
A cooking utensil used to work solid fats (like shortening, butter) into dry ingredients (like flour, sugar) such as when making pastries, pie doughs.

Pie pastry recipe Ham and Olive Empanadillas is made with eggs, shredded cheddar, stuffed green olives chopped, sheets ready-rolled puff pastry thawed, finely chopped cooked ham, and egg yolk lightly beaten.

Pastry recipes
At its most basic, pastry is a mixture of flour and fat bound with water to form a paste. Historically it was used as a case for baking other items, but people eventually realised the pastry was worth eating too.

Pastry Dough Recipe
1 cup Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
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Filo Pastry
This type of pastry (along with finely shredded kadafi pastry, also from the Mediterranean) is made in very thin sheets and used as a casing for numerous delicate savoury and sweet dishes.

Filo pastry
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Thin sheets of pastry commonly used in Greek, eastern European and Middle Eastern cuisines.

Choux pastry This is made by boiling water sugar and butter then thickened with flour and eggs.
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Pies & Pastry
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Danish Pastry
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Pastry cream is a very dense, rich custard. It is a staple of French desserts such as eclairs, and is generally used as a filling in baked goods.

Pastry chef Jean François Houdrhas been delighting and amazing guests at tony Newport Beach, California's Sutton Place Hotel for the past 10 years.

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Pastry for Single-Crust Pie
In a medium bowl, stir together 1-1/4 cups all-purpose flour and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Using a pastry blender, cut in 1/4 cup shortening and 2 tablespoons cold butter until pieces are pea-size.

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pastry shells (9 inches baked pastry shells cooled)
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Pastry scrapers. If you bake bread, you probably already have one of these simple gadgets and rely on it for cutting dough and scraping pastry boards.

Pastry flour has a high protein content and should be very white and free of any bran particles to ensure a good pastry product.

pastry berries See soft wheat berries.
soft wheat berries = pastry berries Notes: These are softer than hard wheat berries. Substitutes: wheat berries
spring wheat berries See wheat berries.

Pastry Bag - A cone-shaped bag with openings at both ends. Food is placed into the large opening then squeezed out the small opening which may be fitted with a decorator tip.

Pastry flour is slightly stronger (higher in gluten) than cake flour.
All-purpose flour, (known as plain flour in Europe) is a blended white flour containing a medium amount of gluten (around 10%).

Pastry flour: A soft wheat blend with less starch than cake flour. It is used for making pastry.

Pastry cream - A cooked custard thickened with flour. Some versions may use cornstarch or a mixture of the two starches.
Pastry wheel - Small, serrated wooden or metal wheel-like utensil for cutting and fluting pastry.

Pastry bag
A duck cloth, cone bag with a metal or plastic tip at the small end used to decorate foods
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Pastry flour:
A fine-textured, soft wheat flour with low-gluten and high-starch content. It may be bleached, unbleached, or whole wheat. Soft red or white wheat may be used to produce this flour.

Pastry chef or patissier: Is responsible for cold foods, including salads and dressings, pts, cold hors d'oeuvres, and buffet items.
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Pastry brush
The most useful brush resembles a paint brush and has bristles which are firmly attached so they do not fall out while using. Natural bristles work well for brushing melted butter over pastry.

Pastry Blender - A kitchen tool consisting of parallel U-shaped steel wires with both ends attached to a wooden handle.

Pastry Blender:
A kitchen utensil with several u-shaped wires attached to a handle. It's used to cut solid fat (like shortening or butter) into flour and other dry ingredients in order to evenly distribute the fat particles.
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Filo pastry
Thin sheets of pastry commonly used in Greek, eastern European and Middle Eastern cuisines.

Puff Pastry Cheese Straws Recipe
1/2 (17.3-ounce) package frozen puff pastry sheets (1 sheet), thawed to room temperature
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Puff Pastry - pastry that puffs when baked.
Pulses - the dried form of peas, beans, soybean, peanuts and other legumes.

Choux pastry - Also called choux paste, pt choux or cream puff pastry. Flour, butter and water are cooked on the stove top before the pastry is shaped, baked until fluffy, then filled.

1 sheet puff pastry (frozen puff pastry thawed for 30 minutes half of a 17.3 oz. package)
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Pastry dough
Pie dough or flaky pastry is the standard American dough for pies. It can be made with butter, vegetable shortening or lard, but most often a combination of butter and shortening is used.

Pastry funnel
If the filling of a pie is not firm enough to mound, support the pastry by placing a pastry funnel in the centre of the dish before putting in the filling.

pastry board: A marble board that you use to roll out pastry dough.
pastry brush: Wooden-handled brushes with tight bristles (natural bristles are preferred) that you use to apply butter and other fats to all sorts of pastries.

Pastry shell with shallow sides and no top crust that is filled with a savory or sweet filling.
Tempe
Fermented soy beans, like tofu. Used in Indonesian cooking. Quite a distinct taste, as opposed to tofu. Also spelled tempeh.

Pastry flour also has low gluten content, though it contains a bit more than cake flour. Made from soft wheat flour, it is used for making tart and pie dough, some cookie batters, and muffins.

Pastry bag: A bag-usually made of plastic, canvas, or nylon-that can be fitted with plain or decorative tips and used to pipe out icings and pureed foods.
Pate (Fr.): Noodles or pasta; dough or batter.

Pastry stuffed with poppy seeds (Mohntaschen 'poppy pockets') are known in various Central and Eastern European countries; they are particularly associated with Yiddish baking (homentashn ["מ טא-שן] or montashn [מאָ טא-שן]).

A pastry that covers meat, fish or vegetables (as in boeuf en crote) or slices of bread or brioche, spread with butter or sauce, and baked until crisp.
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tart - Pastry shell with shallow sides and no top crust that is filled with a savory or sweet filling.

With a pastry brush, brush the tops of the scones with a little milk and bake for approximately 20 minutes at 200 C or until brown on the top.
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Bridie
Pastry casing for meat filling, traditionally flavoured with beef dripping.
Brose
Oatmeal or barley cooked with milk or water from the vegetables or meat.

Using a pastry bag to squeeze a soft food through a decorative tip to create swirled and artful wisps of the product on to another surface.
Pit
To take out the center stone or seed of a fruit, such as a nectarine or a plum.

Unfold 1 pastry sheet and roll out on a lightly floured surface with a floured rolling pin into a 12- by 11-inch rectangle. Cut out 2 (6-inch) rounds. Keep pastry rounds chilled while repeating with remaining pastry sheet.

Hot Water Pastry Step 6
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Definition: To prick a pie crust with a fork before baking. This lets the steam escape so the pie crust doesn't puff up in the often. Usually used when blind baking a pie crust before filling.

Teig: pastry or dough.
Torte: difficult to define, but commonly taken to mean a rich and often layered and filled cake usually made with little or no flour; instead, fine bread crumbs or grated nuts are used.

A Scottish pastry-like bread that is prepared with white flour and has a savory, buttery flavor.

Quiche - A pastry shell that is filled with eggs, cheese, cream, meats, and vegetables.
Reduce - To boil or simmer liquids in order to reduce its size.
Roast - To cook meat or vegetables on an open pan inside an oven.

Small puff pastry shells that can be filled and served as bite-size hors d'oeuvre or petit fours.
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ptissier: pastry chef
patte: paw, foot, or leg or bird or animal
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CREMA - Pastry cream or custard.
CRESCENZA - A rich, creamy, fresh cheese, also known as Crescenza Stracchino , that's widely made in Italy's regions of Lombardy, Piedmont and Veneto.

Flan A round pastry tart with sweet or savory filling, or a Spanish baked custard.

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