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

In such an event, an uncooked icing is used and it is usually applied by means of a pastry tube, although certain simple designs can be made with a small paper cornucopia.

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

Then, with a rosette pastry tube, pipe a border of potatoes around the edge of the plank, so that it will appear as in Fig.

From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

This is put on with a pastry tube and may be made as fanciful as desired, with rosettes and pyramids.

From The Story of Crisco by Neil, Marion Harris

Decorate using a pastry tube and icing made from egg-white and confectioners sugar.

From Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking by Unknown