pastry tube

American  

noun

1. a conical tube with a patterned hole at one end, fitted over the opening of a cloth funnel pastrybag, for shaping icings, food pastes, etc., as they are forced through by squeezing the bag.

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Example Sentences

Carlson has re-created her 1981 installation “Tough Shift for M.I.T.” by once more taking up a pastry tube to squeeze regularly spaced, unusually tactile little flowers across the walls of a gallery here.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2021

Decorate with reserved cream forced through a very small pastry tube of paper or tin.

From For Luncheon and Supper Guests by Bradley, Alice

Or, it may be forced through a pastry tube into rosettes or frills of any preferred design.

From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 4: Salads and Sandwiches; Cold and Frozen Desserts; Cakes, Cookies and Puddings; Pastries and Pies by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

Decorate using a pastry tube and icing made from egg-white and confectioners sugar.

From Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking by Unknown

If you have no pastry tube or squirt, form little round mounds by dipping up portions with a small spoon dipped in cold water.

From Stevenson Memorial Cook Book by Various