Types Of Paste Flashcards
____ is a type of pastry often used for the base of a tart, quiche, pie, or flan.
Shortcrust pastry
What is shortcrust used to make
Shortcrust pastry can be used to make both sweet and savory pies such as apple pie, quiche, lemon meringue or chicken pie.
Puff pastry, also known as
pâte feuilletée
What is puff pastry made from
is a flaky light pastry made from a laminated dough composed of dough and butter or other solid fat.
Choux pastry is also known as ,
pâte à choux
What are the only ingredients in choux pastry
Basic ingredients usually only include butter, water, flour and eggs.
Faults in blistered pastry
Ingredients too warm Over kneading and heavy handling Oven temperature too cold Too much flour used for rolling out Too much water used for mixing
What are the faults Hard tough pastry
Uneven addition of water
Over temperature too hot
Fats insufficiently and unevenly rubbed in
When is a Pastry soggy in a pie
Steam not allowed to escape during cooking
Sugar next to (under) pie lid in a fruit pie
When is the Pastry fragile and crumbly when cooked
Too much fat used
Over rubbing in of fat
Too little water used
What are the faults if the Pastry shrinks during cooking
Pastry over stretched during preparation and rolling
What are the faults for Oily, greasy pastry
Fat too soft
Oven temperature too cool.
Any 5 general rules for pastry making
- Measure the ingredients carefully.
- Use good quality flour. Mix together the flour and salt by sieving.
- Keep everything as cool as possible otherwise the fat may melt which would spoil the finished dish.
- Introduce as much air as possible during making.
- Do not over stretch the pastry during rolling.
In shortcrust pastry, the amount of fat is always _______the amount of flour
Half
If a recipe stated that you needed to use 200g flour, how much fat would you need to use?
100 gms
