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How To Make Pastry – Introduction and Tips

If you are a complete beginner in baking and you want to try to make pastry, then read this article because we will talk about the basics or the things that you need to know about pasty. We will also give some tips that can help you on making pastries. If you love sweets then I am pretty sure you will like this, and probably that is one of your reasons why you are reading this article about pastry.

Studying pastry is fun and interesting because you will know lots of stuff about baking and desserts, and once you know how to make one, I am pretty sure that you will enjoy making pastry for your family, friends and loved ones. You can bake cakes and pastries anytime or whenever there's a special occasions like Thanksgiving. You can even open a bake shop if you have fully mastered baking.

Pastry is a baked product made from flour, milk, butter, sugar, eggs, baking powder and shortening. Small cake, pies and other sweet baked products are considered as pastries. Most pastries are airy and light, but they are firm to support the filling and its weight, while some pastries are flaky, crumbly and have higher fat content like croissants. Also, most pastries usually have sweet fillings like custard, cream, fruit jellies and jams.

There are different kinds of pastry:

1. Shortcrust – or short pastry is the most common pastry. Short pasty is made of flour, fat, water and salt. In making short pastry you need to mix flour and fat first, then you will rub the mixture with your fingers or by using a pastry blender. This process will give you soft and tender pastry bread.
2. Puff Pastry – this pastry has many layers that make the bread puff because of the air between layers and the reaction of ingredients: flour, salt, butter and water. Puff pastry is tender and flaky.
3. Flaky Pastry – this pastry is just like puff pastry, it has many layers that puff, but this pastry is a bit crisp. It is initially baked in a high temperature and before you finish baking it or before you remove the pastry out of the oven you need to lower the temperature first.
4. Phyllo Pastry (or Filo) – this pastry is usually as thin as a paper. This pastry is usually brushed with butter,
5. Choux Pastry – this pastry is pretty common and I am sure that you know this type of pastry because this pastry is usually filled with cream or custard and topped with chocolate. This kind of pastries can be also filled with tuna, chicken or cheese, perfect for appetizers.

Here are some terms that you need to know:

• Pastry bag or Piping bag – is a cone shaped bag filled with icing or filling for the pastry. Most bakers use this bag to put icings on their cakes.
• Pastry board – is where you will roll your pastries.
• Pastry Cream – consists of egg, flour thickened custard with milk flavored vanilla. This is usually used for filling or cake toppings.
• Pastry cutters – is used to cut and design pastry and other baked products.

These are just the basics of pastry. It may be hard at first, but once you know how to make one and how to apply techniques, everything will be easy and fast for you.

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