Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Dough or paste consisting primarily of flour, water, and shortening that is baked and often used as a crust for foods such as pies and tarts.
- noun Baked sweet foods made with pastry.
- noun One of these baked foods.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where pies, tarts, etc., are made.
- noun Viands made of paste, or of which paste constitutes a principal ingredient; particularly, the crust or cover of a pie, tart, or the like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The place where pastry is made.
- noun Articles of food made of paste, or having a crust made of paste, as pies, tarts, etc.
- noun one whose occupation is to make pastry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
baked food group which contains items made fromflour and fat pastes such as pie crust; alsotarts ,bear claws ,Napoleons ,puff pastries , etc. - noun uncountable The type of light flour-based
dough used in pastries
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a dough of flour and water and shortening
- noun any of various baked foods made of dough or batter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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SO delicious, the pastry is absolutely amazing, it no wonder why people die for this stuff!
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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SO delicious, the pastry is absolutely amazing, it no wonder why people die for this stuff!
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The English word pastry, Italian pasta, and French pàâte and pàâté all go back to a suggestive group of ancient Greek words having to do with small particles and fine textures: they variously referred to powder, salt, barley porridge, cake, and an embroidered veil.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The English word pastry, Italian pasta, and French pàâte and pàâté all go back to a suggestive group of ancient Greek words having to do with small particles and fine textures: they variously referred to powder, salt, barley porridge, cake, and an embroidered veil.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Puff pastry is definitely the most convenient and it keeps for a very long time in the freezer, so I fall back on it a lot for a quick dessert like this one.
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Homemade puff pastry is great when you have a bit of time to make it, but store-bought is the way to go most of the time for the sake of convenience and reliability.
Pepperidge Farms Puff Pastry Shells, reviewed | Baking Bites 2009
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The treats are made by wrapping apples with a layer of pastry, then baking them until the pastry is crisp and the apple is tender.
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(Some puff pastry is packaged in smaller sheets, in this case cut each piece of dough into quarters or sixths.)
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Bake for 20-25 minutes, until pastry is a light golden brown.
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Puff pastry is easy to work with and produces a crisp, flaky delicious danish - especially considering that it takes so little time to make a batch.
ruzuzu commented on the word pastry
From The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia:
"n. A place where pies, tarts, etc., are made.
"n. Viands made of paste, or of which paste constitutes a principal ingredient; particularly, the crust or cover of a pie, tart, or the like."
August 11, 2017