History
Pastery Types
Definitions
Decorating
Different Varieties
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What is a European tradition of pastry making?
Flaky Doughs
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What is a Short crust pastry
Short crust pastry is the simplest and most common pastry. It is made with flour, fat, butter, salt, and water to bind the dough
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What is a pastry?
A type of food used in dishes such as pies or strudel.
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What is frosting made of?
Frosting is usually made from powdered (icing) sugar, sometimes a fat of some sort, milk or cream, and often flavorings such as vanilla extractor cocoa powder. Some decorators use a rolled fondant icing
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What is very similar to yeast breads?
Yeast cakes.
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Who had a filo-style pastries in their culinary traditions
the ancient Mediterranean, the Romans, Greeks and Phoenicians
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What is a Flaky pastry
Flaky pastry is a simple pastry that expands when cooked due to the number of layers
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What is a Pastry bag or Piping bag:
An often cone-shaped bag that is used to make an even stream of dough, frosting, or flavored substance to form a structure, decorate a baked item, or fill a pastry with a custard, cream, jelly, or other filling.
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What makes the icing light and spreadable?
lard for the fat, and often whip the lard to introduce air bubbles
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If cheese cakes arent really cakes at all, what are they?
Custard pies with a filling mostly made of cheese
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what sweets were mentioned in the Aristophanes plays?
sweetmeats, including small pastries filled with fruit
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What is a Puff pastry
Puff pastry has many layers that cause it to expand or “puff” when baked. Puff pastry is made using flour, butter, salt, and water.
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What is a Pastry board?
A square or oblong board, preferably marble but usually wood, on which pastry is rolled out.
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What are some of the basic designs for pastry decorating? (Name 3)
open star, closed star, basket weave, round, drop flower, leaf, multi, petal
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What is the first cake that is to be made with no yeast base?
Sponge cake
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Why were the pastry chefs in teh Medival Northern Europeans able to produce nice, stiff pastries?
they cooked with shortening and butter
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What is a Choux pastry
Choux pastry is a very light pastry that is often filled with cream ex. An éclair
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What's a Pastry brake?
Opposed and counter-rotating rollers with a variable gap through which pastry can be worked and reduced in thickness for commercial production. A small version is used domestically for pasta production.
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What's another word used for almond paste?
marzipan
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What are two cakes which are considered to be butter cakes?
Pound cake and devil's food cake
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What century were pastry recipies starting to be adopted?
mid-16th century
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What is a Hot water crust pastry
used for savory pies, such as pork pies, game pies and, more rarely, steak and kidney pies. Hot water crust is traditionally used for making hand-raised pies. The usual ingredients are hot water, lard and flour, the pastry is made by heating water, melting the fat in this, bringing to the boil, and finally mixing with the flour
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What is a Pastry case?
An uncooked or blind baked pastry container used to hold savory or sweet mixtures.
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What is a subsstance usewd to form designs on cakes and other pastries, examples are flowers, leaves, etc.
Fondant
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Where was cheese cake originated?
Ancient Greece
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