Category: pastry...
- most pastry is leavened only by steam but Danish pastry is raised with yeast
- phyllo and strudel pastries are rolled out or stretched to paper thinness
- toasting and buttering a pastry for someone
- pastry is used to cover, support, encase, or constitute dishes such as pie, tart, pasty, croissant
- types: shortcrust, rough puff, puff pastry, choux pastry, filo/phyllo pastry
- the differences in pastry textures lie in the nature of the wheat flour and certain kinds of fat
- small sweet cakes eaten by the ancient Egyptians may have included pastry and it was mentioned in the plays of ancient Greek Aristophanes
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