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puff paste

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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

Line the dish with good puff paste, and bake for half an hour.

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 Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury

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 Mary Hooper

Add olives, well bruised, in sufficient proportion to flavour; and when thoroughly incorporated, mix the whole with puff paste and flummery made into a mess.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

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