So to begin with, thepastry should be light and delicate.
Brush the edges with water and then fold the pastry together.
When ready to serve the oyster pie, place two of the squares of pastryon a plate and then lift on the oyster pie, and then place a second piece right over the crust of pie.
Any little housewife may turn out delicious, flaky pastry if she will but follow directions carefully.
Line either custard cups or individual pie plates with pastry made as follows: Place in a mixing bowl Two cups of sifted flour, One-half teaspoon of salt, One level tablespoon of baking powder.
Pastry should be very cold when it is put into the oven.
Pour this gravy over the chicken and serve; dumplings may be added if desired, or it may be placed in a deep dish, covered with pastry and baked for chicken pie.
Fried food, rich puddings andpastry must be carefully avoided.
There are so many food preparations superior to pastry in both nutritive value and cost of time and material, that it will be wise to give it a very secondary place in the training of a culinary artist.
Always fold pastry so as to keep it in layers--even when cutting off the roll keep the layers one above the other, not turning them on their sides.
Pastry should be rolled about as thin as the edge of a plate for tarts, etc.
Butter is more wholesome in pastry than lard, although the latter makes a light crust.
Pick and wash the mushrooms, remove the stalks, dry them and cut them into pieces; make pastrywith the meal, 3 oz.
Make the pastry of the meal, butter, and a little water; pick and wash the mushrooms, cut them up in small pieces dredge them with pepper and salt, and fry them in the butter for 5 to 10 minutes.
Put the halves together, enclose them in paste, brush them over with the white of egg, and bake until the pastryis done, which will take about 15 minutes.
For Pastry it should be softened slightly before rubbing into the flour, and a little more water used in making the paste than if Lard or Butter were being used.
These berries are eaten fresh to a great extent, but are also much used for pastrymaking and for various kinds of dessert; in fact, there is practically no limit to the number of recipes that may be given for strawberries.
If one of these is not available, and the kitchen or pastry table has a vitrolite or other heavy top resembling porcelain, this will make a very good substitute.
Otherwise, the use of this fruit in desserts is not very extensive, except where the canned berries are used for pastry or pie or are eaten for sauce or where the jam is used in making up various dessert dishes.
They are not often eaten fresh, but are generally utilized for making jellies, jams, and preserves, or for pastry and pies.
The averagepastry of our beloved land would drive a Patrick Henry to self-exile if he were obliged to eat it every day.
Drop a tablespoonful of the mixture on a floured pastry board, or a floured dish.
Dredge your pastry or bread-board well with flour, put the dough upon it and sift flour lightly over it.
Afterward I was the best hand at pastry in the house.
There are plenty of raspberries ripe in the plantation--I will gather some, and I'll make the pastry for the tart myself.
The cook and his brother were both careful men, and always had a great store of pastry and sweet things on their shelves, so that none might be lacking if their lord should command them.
But you do not want a catalogue of soups and pastry and sauces; there was plenty of everything.
You made a great fuss in your letter about their gorging on boar's head and pastrywhile your festival consists of a mouthful of cress or thyme or onion.
Any pastry or entremet which requires to be kept dry, such as meringues, maccaroons, almond paste, &c.
Line a pie-tin with pastry and put on a border of the paste about an inch wide.
Put a border of mashed potato mixed with the beaten white of egg around the fish, using a pastrytube and forcing bag.
PEACH CREAM TART Line a deep pie-tin with good pastry and fill it two-thirds full with canned peaches that have been cooked for two or three minutes in boiling syrup.
Lay a slice of tomato on each piece, put a pimola in the centre, curl an anchovy around it and border with stiff Mayonnaise, using the pastry bag and tube.
LEMON CREAM PIE--I Line a pie-tin with pastryand bake.
With this, they crossed the road to Debatt's the Pastry Cook's Shop.
Beat six whites of eggs very stiff, mix with them half a pound of powdered sugar, with which cover each strip of pastry on top, about three quarters of an inch thick.
She had taken special care that the pastry should be of that type which appeals to gentlemen who are as a general rule not partial to pastry.
As a pastry cook's apprentice he served his time, and then, without any thought of becoming anything else in the world, he set off with several otherpastry cooks to go to Rome, where their talents were to be well rewarded.
His family may have been all pastry cooks, because people of Lorrain were famous for that work; anyway as a little chap he was apprenticed to one.
From cleaning brushes it was but a step to trying to use them upon canvas, and Tassi being a good-natured man, began to give Lorrain instruction, till the pastry cook became his master's assistant in the studio.
Most commonly the dough is like that used for soda or cream-of-tartar biscuit, but sometimes shortened pastry dough, such as is made for pies, is used.
When baking day came, Mamma always allowed the children to have a little pastry dough to make up into the forms they liked best.
The owner of a pastry store invented a cake, dedicated it to the Princess Mathilde, and he is making a rapid fortune.
Others had recourse to the sideboard for consolation and stuffed themselves with pastry and refreshments; the greatest glutton took the most delicate sweetmeats, on the pretext that he was taking them to the ladies.
Mother did earnestly advise me to begin with a savoury, as she did, but there was no compulsion in the matter, and I think I made my whole meal of sweet pastry every time.
I went myself to five or six bakeries and pastry shops and found them all stripped.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pastry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
