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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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

If meringues are desired, the recipe for kisses may be followed and the mixture then dropped by spoonfuls, instead of being forced through a 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

Put the mixture in a pastry tube and decorate top of pie in fanciful fashion.

From The Complete Book of Cheese by Brown, Robert Carlton

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

From For Luncheon and Supper Guests by Bradley, Alice

The process is similar to that used when icing a cake, when you allow the icing to run slowly from a pastry tube to form fanciful designs.

From Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" by Thomas, Edith