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

This can be forced through a pastry tube, or through a cornucopia, made from ordinary white letter paper.

From The New Dr. Price Cookbook by Royal baking powder company, New York

With the aid of a spoon, as illustrated, fill the ladyfinger mixture into a pastry bag containing a plain pastry tube.

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

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

Then, from the pastry tube, squeeze the cake mixture onto the marked spaces, as shown in Fig.

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