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 Puff pastry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In baking, a puff pastry (pâte feuilletée) is a light, flaky pastry made from dough of the same name.
Puff pastry is cooked when the bottom of the item is browned and the pastry does not collapse into itself.
Puff pastry shells used to be filled with crabmeat salad or chicken à la king at ladies' luncheons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puff_pastry   (749 words)

  
 Puff Pastry
Puff pastry rises in the oven because of its unique construction—thin sheets of dough separated by thin sheets of butter.
Put them in the bowl, and, using your fingertips or a pastry cutter, rub the butter and flour together.
When I watched a young French chef make this pastry in the courtyard outside his cramped kitchen in 90 degrees F heat, the butter didn't melt, and in the oven, the pastry rose beyond expectation.
http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/ild/2003/0103/puff.html   (767 words)

  
 You can't go wrong with packaged puff pastry dough
Puff paste is the queen of all pastries.
Using a sharp knife, cut pastry a tad larger than the baking dish of the pot pie.
Using a soft pastry brush, lightly coat the pastries with egg wash. With a sharp knife, make a slit in the top of each pastry.
http://www.post-gazette.com/food/20020908puffpastry0908fnp4.asp   (1357 words)

  
 A Shortcut to Flaky Puff Pastry
Use rough puff pastry to make turnovers, mille-feuilles, cheese straws, and cream horns, or use it as a crust for tarts, quiches, and pot pies.
Quick puff pastry is ideal for crisp, buttery pastries and crusts.
Classic puff pastry begins with a basic dough called a détrempe (pronounced day-trahmp) that is rolled out and wrapped around a slab of butter.
http://www.taunton.com/finecooking/pages/c00012.asp   (665 words)

  
 pastry_pateachoux
A puff pastry recipe starts by boiling water and butter together on the stovetop, the only pastry prepared that way before baking.
Puff pastry easily becomes an elegant casing for desserts, hors d'oeuvres and appetizers, often filled with sweet or savory fillings.
The 'cream puff', a small puff pastry filled with whipped cream or custard, dates to around 1880 in the U.S. Puff Pastry - Choux pastry or Pâte à choux (pronounced paht ah shoo), is a versatile cream puff pastry shell made from a dough.
http://www.baking911.com/pastry_pateachoux.htm   (2077 words)

  
 Thawing puff pastry
Puff pastry, as you know, consists of hundreds of alternating layers of dough and fat.
We have kept homemade puff pastry dough (made with butter) in the refrigerator for a week and still had it turn out fine.
In the oven, the water in the fat evaporates, blowing the layers of dough apart, causing the pastry to puff up dramatically as the layers separate.
http://www.ochef.com/262.htm   (279 words)

  
 Tom Saaristo Puff Pastry Straws
Puff pastry straws can be frozen unbaked or baked.
Working quickly to keep the dough cool, use a pastry brush and brush a light coating of egg white/water wash over the entire surface of the puff pastry.
This will press the cheese into the puff pastry.
http://tomsaaristo.com/puff_pastry_straws.html   (279 words)

  
 Puff Pastry Hors' d oeuvres
Sprinkle the cheese over the top of the pastry.
Pat the sausage out to the length of the pastry.
When the pastry cups have cooled remove the tops and place a teaspoon of the cream cheese filling in the center.
http://www.jennyskitchen.com/recipes/horsdoeuvre.htm   (305 words)

  
 Rough Puff Pastry
Using a pastry scraper or a large chef's knife, cut the butter into the flour.
Mix the dough with the pastry scraper until it just hangs together.
Use the pastry scraper to fold the dough in thirds like a business letter.
http://www.taunton.com/finecooking/pages/c00012_rec01.asp   (264 words)

  
 Style Gourmet: Cooking Site
A classic yet simple sweet puff pastry is the fruit tart, which you can make in any size and with a number of different kinds of firm fruit (berries, apples, pears, mangos nectarines, plums and peaches).
Puff pastry has literally thousands of applications; some pastry chefs spend entire careers occupied with little else.
When cutting puff pastry dough, cut it clean, using your sharpest knives or cutters, otherwise you compromise the layering at the edges.
http://www.stylegourmet.com/articles/009.htm   (1248 words)

  
 Puff it up TheNewsTribune.com Tacoma, WA
Puff pastry does not reheat; eat it when it’s baked.
Pate a choux and puff pastries can be filled with many combinations of ingredients, including caramel sauce and hazelnuts.
Fillings: After they’re cooked, puff pastry and pâte à choux puffs can be filled with a variety of ingredients, including cooked wild mushrooms, caramelized onions, goat cheese, crab salad, salmon mousse, curried vegetables, ground lamb or beef mixtures.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/soundlife/story/5382329p-4866549c.html   (966 words)

  
 Preparing Puff Pastry
The principle behind the pastry is to create many layers of dough and butter by folding and turning the two together.
7) Place the square of butter on the mounded centre of the pastry and fold in the arms, stretching the pastry slightly to seal in the butter.
Place the ball of pastry on a lightly floured work surface and flatten slightly with the palm of your hand.
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/restaurant/techniques/pastry.html   (660 words)

  
 Bawarchi: Contributions: Puff Pastry
Brush the pastry sheet with little butter and place the masala mixture inside the pastry sheet.
Here is a snack, PUFF PASTRY, I learnt from one of my friend and liked it so much.
Brush the baked sheet with little butter and keep the puff pastry.
http://www.bawarchi.com/contribution/contrib1370.html   (176 words)

  
 Pie Recipe Index: Tarts
The pastry for this fabulous tart is ambrosial, made with confectioners ' sugar, cake flour, eggs and orange water.
Individual tart shells are lined with pastry and then filled with a sweet butter mixture with lots of raisins and nuts, and a bit of vinegar and vanilla flavoring stirred in.
The pastry for these tarts is sweet and buttery and will melt in your mouth.
http://pierecipe.allrecipes.com/directory/497.asp   (2708 words)

  
 Puff Pastry Recipe - The Foody
Place the pastry on to a floured surface, so that the unsealed edge is towards you, roll and fold again as before.
Leave the pastry to rest in a cool place for 10 minutes.
Leave the pastry to rest in a cool place for 15 minutes.
http://www.thefoody.com/baking/puffpastry.html   (238 words)

  
 FamilyFun: Recipe for Cheese and Puff Pastry Sandwiches
Repeat with the remaining pastry, spice mixture and cheese.
For all-American flavored Cheese and Pastry snacks, use cheddar instead of Asiago cheese and chili powder, sugar and black pepper in place of the paprika, onion powder and oregano.
Unroll one of the puff pastry sheets and equally distribute half of the mixture over it.
http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/special/feature/famf0101tail/famf0101tail2.html   (229 words)

  
 Puff Pastry Recipe -- Mr Breakfast
Turn the dough so that the seam is on your right and again roll out to the same size rectangle, sprinkling the pastry board and dough very lightly with flour as necessary to prevent the dough from sticking.
To make the pastry base: In a food processor fitted with steel blade, combine pastry flour, all-purpose flour and salt.
Remove the pastry base and the butter block from the refrigerator and bring to room temperature before using.
http://www.mrbreakfast.com/superdisplay.asp?recipeid=525   (511 words)

  
 Puff Pastry
Puff pastry is one of those true convenience ingredients that make tricky pastries possible and easy pastries downright presentable.
And place the puff pastry over the pan, sealing the edges of the pastry to the sides of the pan with your fingertips.
Fold the puff pastry in half diagonally to enclose the potato filling, pressing gently with the fingertips to seal the edges.
http://www.aish.com/family/cooking/Puff_Pastry.asp   (1833 words)

  
 Puff Pastry Appetizers
Brush the pastry sheet with an egg wash (1 egg beaten with a bit of water) and sprinkle with parmesan cheese.
Puff pastry is so hard and time consuming to make yourself.
There is really no need to do it since there are very good pastry doughs available in the stores these days.
http://www.alyssacooks.com/puff_pastry_appetizers.htm   (197 words)

  
 Le Bon Croissant - Puff Pastry
Puff Pastry is truly a French product, and Le Bon Croissant insists on continuing in the French tradition by providing this light, airy pastry.
With alternating layers of specially-formulated dough and the finest bakers' mararine, our puff pastry excels in appearance, texture and taste.
When baking, the steam produced by the moisture in the dough lifts the layers to give its delightfully flaky texture.
http://www.leboncroissant.com/products/puff.htm   (114 words)

  
 A La Cuisine!: Trials and Tribulations in Puff Pastry (Pre-SHF 5)
As with all puff pastry recipes, this one began by making the détrempe (the dough) and the beurrage (the butter block) separately, before enclosing the beurrage inside the détrempe, and proceeding through a series of six turns.
While the pastry was deliciously rich and flaky, its appearance was uneven, and parts of the pastry were completely hollow.
Essentially, this is dough wrapped in butter instead of butter wrapped in dough - which might sound a bit gross, but it’s the lightest, flakiest and most tasty puff pastry I’ve had thus far.
http://www.alacuisine.org/alacuisine/2005/02/trials_and_trib.html   (1060 words)

  
 Stuffed Fish in Puff Pastry - All Recipes - Seafood
The puff pastry, once rolled should be about 1/3 to 1/4 inch thick and large enough for you to lay the fish on top of it and still have puff pastry on the sides.
Trim the pastry around the filets in roughly the shape of a fish.
Brush underside of top pastry sheet with water and tuck under bottom sheet of puff pastry pressing lightly to totally encase the fish and stuffing package.
http://seafood.allrecipes.com/AZ/StffdFishinPffPstry.asp   (533 words)

  
 Puff Pastry
Roll very lightly so the butter blends into the pastry - no lumps of butter should break through(this is why we grate the butter).
To bake preheat the oven to 250º Celsius.Put the pastry in for 5 minutes, then turn down the heat to 220º Celsius.
To prevent the dough sticking while rolling lightly flour the rolling pin and board with cornflour.
http://www.culinarycafe.com/Pies-Pasteries/Puff_Pastry.html   (350 words)

  
 Puff Pastry Roll - All Recipes - Chicken
"This is a delicious ground chicken in puff pastry recipe served with a mushroom sauce.
Puff Pastry Roll - All Recipes - Chicken
Place mixture along the long edge of the pastry.
http://chicken.allrecipes.com/az/PuffPastryRoll.asp   (159 words)

  
 Puff Pastry - Home
Savory spinach, onion and tangy cheese filling are rolled up in flaky pastry for tempting pinwheels.
Ham, Swiss and Dijon mustard are wrapped in golden pastry and served with fresh baby lettuces.
Using Puff Pastry is a snap, even for beginners!
http://www.puffpastry.com   (96 words)

  
 Allrecipes More Recipes Like This Crescent Pastry Puff
Choux pastry is baked in a rectangular pan, then topped with a chocolate cream cheese filling and a whipped topping top and frozen.
With a cinnamon and cream cheese filling inside, and cream cheese frosting outside, this puff pastry dessert is just about perfect.
Tart apples are seasoned with cinnamon, sugar and nutmeg, then baked in puff pastry and drizzled with icing.
http://mrlt.allrecipes.com/mr/32737.asp?lnkid=631   (289 words)

  
 Elegant Ways with Puff Pastry
Golden puff pastry filled with semi-sweet chocolate and pecans, served warm on a pool of Melba sauce sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Flaky wheels of puff pastry filled with pepperoni and asiago cheese.
A flavorful Florentine stuffing with a blend of three cheeses incased in a flaky puff pastry shell.
http://www.bunncapitol.com/cookbook/TrendS/elegant_ways_with_puff_pastry.htm   (609 words)

  
 Chicken in Puff Pastry
Charles Whittaker's reputation as a pastry chef is spreading far and wide, and this mouth-watering mixture of cream cheese and chicken encased in puff pastry is his own concoction.
Paint the pastry parcels with beaten egg and place in the middle of the oven.
Roll out the puff pastry and cut into squares big enough to wrap up the chicken.
http://www.aboutfood.co.uk/articles/recipes/recipe-404.html   (162 words)

  
 Recipes - Puff Pastry
Put one sheet of the baked puff pastry on a large serving platter.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Unfold pastry on lightly floured surface.
Roll out thawed pastry to approximately 10" X 13" on a lightly floured surface.
http://www.getlostmagazine.com/eats/2002/0206puff.html   (969 words)

  
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Let's hear it for frozen puff pastry, those pre-rolled sheets of dough that bake and rise into crisp, flaky layers of airy pastry.
The Pepperidge Farm puff pastry, found in the freezer case at most supermarkets, comes in sheets, which can be cut into individual pastries or formed into a giant pastry, as well as individual shells.
Pepperidge Farm's puff pastry is the most popular brand and is widely available.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/features/food/topstories/121703ccfoodpuffpastry.538f.html   (575 words)

  
 Puff Pastry Fruit Tartlets - recipes dessert cakes tarts
Cut the pastry with a 12cm ring into 6 rounds.
Leave them to cook for 10-15 minutes until the pastry is golden and puffed up.
Place the pastry rounds onto a lightly greased oven tray.
http://www.foodiesite.com/recipes/2000-07/pufftart.jsp   (193 words)

  
 crab cheese puff pastry at MSN Shopping
Each pastry is two bites of puff pastry dough with a...
More filling of lump crab and cream cheese.
http://shopping.msn.com/results/shp/?text=crab+cheese+puff+pastry   (39 words)

  
 Puff Pastry Cinnamon Rolls - All Recipes - Dessert
Spread cinnamon and cream cheese mixture over puff pastry.
Puff Pastry Cinnamon Rolls - All Recipes - Dessert
Roll puff pastry into a log, and pinch ends together to keep filling inside.
http://dessert.allrecipes.com/az/73175.asp?rss=3   (144 words)

  
 puff pastry - ChefTalk Cooking Forums
Puff pastry doesn't hold a cup shape that way, unless you have something that will fit snugly over the dough to hold it in place.
Pastries and Baking General General discussion forum for all pastry and baking topics.
The corn syrup gives the pastry a lovely shine and it seals the dough so it will remain crisp and flaky.
http://www.cheftalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3373   (1074 words)

  
 Puff Pastry
To cook your pastry successfully, use a preheated hot oven of 220 deg C. Roll the pastry out to about 4 mm thickness, cut the required shapes, and return to the fridge to cool again.
When cutting the pastry, always use a very sharp knife to give a clean cut, and when egg washing the tops, make sure none dribbles down the sides of the pastry, as this can act like a glue and prevent the layers from separating and rising during baking.
Roll the pastry out to a rectangle of the same thickness.
http://www.abc.net.au/newcastle/stories/s605421.htm   (641 words)

  
 anapestic: Saturday Morning Staples: the Puff Pastry Post
Using your pastry scraper, fold the third of the dough farthest away from you back onto the middle third.
One can only presume, from all of the fear and loathing that have been inspired by puff pastry, that someone somewhere (is there a bakery cabal operating beneath the radar?) has an interest in making otherwise competent cooks think that puff pastry is an Everest that they're likely to die upon.
Put the dough mass out on your pastry marble.
http://anapestic.blogspot.com/2005/10/saturday-morning-staples-puff-pastry.html   (1956 words)

  
 Allrecipes Cook's Encyclopedia puff pastry
Puff pastry is used to make a variety of crisp creations including CROISSANTS, NAPOLEONS, PALMIERS and ALLUMETTES.
This process, which is repeated 6 to 8 times, produces a pastry comprising hundreds of layers of dough and butter.
When baked, the moisture in the butter creates steam, causing the dough to puff and separate into hundreds of flaky layers.
http://allrecipes.com/advice/ref/ency/terms/8090.asp   (143 words)

  
 GourmetSleuth - Recipe for Mexican Sopaipillas, Fried Puff Pastry
This is a delicious puff pastry dessert that is sometimes served drizzled with honey or served as an accompaniment with soups.
Add a few pastry squares at a time and use tongs to push the pastry into the oil.
Work with half of the dough at a time and roll out into a square keeping it as even and thin as possible.
http://gourmetsleuth.com/sopaipillas.htm   (317 words)

  
 Recipes : Cheese and Spinach Puff Pastry Pockets : Food Network
Transfer the pastries to a platter and serve.
Stir in the spinach, Fontina cheese, Parmesan, and green onions.
Bake until the pastries are golden brown and the filling is hot, about 25 to 30 minutes.
http://www.foodtv.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_29791,00.html   (144 words)

  
 Brie in Puff Pastry
Use the egg wash and brush the edges of the pastry dough.
(This is used as a sealant or ‘glue’ for the puff dough.) Cover the bries with the remaining puff pastry dough squares, align the corners, and press together.
(Be careful not to puncture the dough.) Again, use the egg wash and brush puff pastry.
http://www.acadiacom.net/custom/Rec_hdo/briefuff.html   (305 words)

  
 Recipe: Puff Pastry with Lemon (A web-exclusive recipe from Italian Cooking and Living)
Mix well, and fill the pastry cups with this lemon flavored pastry cream.
Arrange the figs in a circle on top of the pastry cream, and place 1 grape in the middle of each cup.
Recipe: Puff Pastry with Lemon (A web-exclusive recipe from Italian Cooking and Living)
http://www.italiancookingandliving.com/recipes/archive/3085-Puff-Pastry-with-Lemon.html   (185 words)

  
 Mock Puff Pastry recipe
Using a pastry blender, or working with your fingertips, cut the butter into the flour until the butter is the size of peas, about 1/2 inch in diameter.
Although it is much quicker to make than classic puff pastry, this version still creates many delicate, flaky layers of pastry.
Combine the flour and the salt in a large, chilled stainless-steel bowl.
http://www.ochef.com/r55.htm   (244 words)

  
 GourmetSleuth - Salmon in Puff Pastry
Bring pastry corners up around salmon (pastry will not enclose salmon completely.) Roll out remaining pastry sheet on floured surface to 13-inch square.
Salmon Served in Puff Pastry with Dill Sauce
Roll out 1 pastry sheet on floured surface to 12-inch square.
http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/recipe_salmonpuff.htm   (367 words)

  
 Chocolate Puff Pastry Bundles - Quick Cooking
Lightly flour a pastry board and place the sheet of puff pastry in the center.
Distribute the chopped chocolate and the chopped walnuts equally among the 6 small pastry squares; create small mounds of the chocolate and nuts in the center of each piece.
Thaw the puff pastry for about 30 minutes.
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art4529.asp   (276 words)

  
 Hormel Foods - Glossary - Puff Pastry
A multi-layered pastry, which is made by combining thin layers of pastry dough with a very thin layers of butter (or other solid fat) between each layer of dough.
As the layered pastry bakes, steam is created by the moisture from the butter, which causes the dough to puff and separate into many flaky layers.
The dough is then rolled and folded many times prior to baking.
http://www.hormel.com/kitchen/glossary.asp?id=33893&catitemid=   (128 words)

  
 CRAWFISH TOMATO ETOUFFEE IN PUFF PASTRY SHELLS Recipe at Epicurious.com
Reheat pastry shells in middle of a 400°F. oven until warm before serving.
Spices were wrong and the pastry puffs were not needed.
Bake pastry shells in middle of oven until golden, about 9 minutes, and transfer to a rack.
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/11373   (714 words)

  
 etherwork.net :: discussions of various subjects View topic - Butter Puff Pastry?
But I don't know if that's the kind of Pampas pastry you were getting, nor if your "butter puff pastry" is the same as the "Pampas butter puff pastry".
Was wondering if the butter puff (which we get here in sheets of 8 in a box)and puff pastry sheets are the same in taste.
And I'm too lazy to make puff pastry (although I gather that it is not supposed to be [i]that[i] hard to do) We did recently get phyllo though - not made with butter - but then one would not necessarily expect phyllo to be made with butter.
http://etherwork.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1052&sid=51df9ed0f2259781f1ba9b657ac57290   (1011 words)

  
 mushrooms in puff pastry recipe appetizer recipes
Heat oven to 350°F. Roll pastry dough into an 11 x 15 inch rectangle.
Cut dough into strips wide enough to cover a ravioli mold and press one piece of dough into the mold.
Stir in cream cheese to make mushrooms stick together.
http://www.thatsmyhome.com/mainstreetdeli/wilmus.htm   (314 words)

  
 Puff Pastry Recipe
After the sixth turn the puff pastry is ready to use.
This is called "the first turn of the pastry"
Fold the dough in 2, to have a square again, seal the edges with a rolling pin.
http://home.earthlink.net/~ggda/pasta_sfogliata.htm   (249 words)

  
 Puff Pastry
Take a pastry roll and tap on it so that the butter is equally placed.
Cut the butter in slices and place it in the middle of the rectangular.
Then turn the pastry to your right by one quarter of a circle and start again.
http://www.beaskitchen.com/print/puffpastry   (292 words)

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