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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

Mix the whole well together, then turn it into a pudding dish, with a lining and rim of puff paste.

From The New England Cook Book, or Young Housekeeper's Guide Being a Collection of the Most Valuable Receipts; Embracing all the Various Branches of Cookery, and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner by Anonymous

Roll out your puff paste as thin as possible, lay it in pattypans, fill them with the ingredients, but do not cover them.

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

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

From Desserts and Salads by Lemcke, Gesine

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