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pastry cream

British  

noun

  1. Also called: pastry custard.  a creamy custard, often flavoured, used as a filling for éclairs, flans, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Nevertheless, I carried on with the pastry cream, waiting impatiently for the eggs to thicken into custard.

From Salon Dec. 4, 2022

Key ingredients in the crust are rice flour and pastry cream powder, Ramsay shared in an email to The Post.

From Washington Post Nov. 25, 2022

For anything savory, any bread, anything with fruit or nuts or pastry cream, pause for a moment while you bite, then chew, and experience a glimmer of gluten-based enlightenment.

From Seattle Times May 20, 2022

But I loved the pain aux raisins, an escargot-shaped brioche pastry made the traditional French way, loaded with raisins, kept soft and nice by a subtle amount of pastry cream.

From Seattle Times Nov. 27, 2019

His trembling hands whipped pastry cream as light as a shroud.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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