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pastry cream

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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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THE RECIPE: The pie, while multipartite in construction, keeps the ingredients simple and pure: lots of butter for the crust, rich dairy throughout, real vanilla bean in the pastry cream.

From Seattle Times May 3, 2023

None of us cared that the caramel was burnt, or that the pastry cream gushed out of the profiteroles like raw egg yolks.

From Salon Dec. 4, 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

The rewards might be a warm-spiced cabernet franc from the Loire Valley and loose coffee pastry cream puddled in a chocolate tart brushed with espresso syrup.

From Washington Post Jan. 25, 2021

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

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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