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puff paste

American  

noun

  1. a rich dough for making puff pastry.


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Develop a tactile sense of what a short crust, a cake batter, a puff paste, a buttercream, or a meringue should feel and look like.

From Slate Jul. 9, 2018

If the directions sometimes seem absurdly long, it is because the authors are bent on enabling a twelve-year-old to turn out a fine puff paste on first try.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead of puff paste a fine pie crust may be used.

From Desserts and Salads by Lemcke, Gesine

Make your olives as you would common beef olives; put them into puff paste, top and bottom; fill the pie with water, when baked, pour in some good rich gravy.

From The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

Line four patty-pans with puff paste, divide the mutton into equal portions and put it into the pans, cover each with a lid of paste, and bake in a quick oven for half-an-hour.

From Nelson's Home Comforts Thirteenth Edition by Hooper, Mary

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