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pastry cream

British

noun

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

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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

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

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

This fluffy frozen confection, layered with fruit syrup and condensed milk or pastry cream, is the feature at this intimate new dessert cafe.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2019

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

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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