A Commonplace Book

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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