pastry

[ pey-stree ]

noun

, plural pas·tries.

1. a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
2. any item of food of which such dough forms an essential part, as a pie, tart, or napoleon.

pastry

/ ˈpeɪstrɪ /

noun

1. a dough of flour, water, shortening, and sometimes other ingredients
2. baked foods, such as tarts, made with this dough
3. an individual cake or pastry pie

Word History and Origins

Origin of pastry¹

First recorded in 1530–40; paste + -ry

Word History and Origins

Origin of pastry¹

C16: from paste ¹

Example Sentences

We get our beef on Wednesdays, clean it and create all the necessary components including the crepes, mushroom duxelle and puff pastry on Thursdays.

From Salon

Other new menu items include Starbuck’s Gingerbread Cream Cold Foam, a blend of gingerbread flavors with vanilla sweet cream; Turkey Sage Danish, a savory pastry filled with turkey sausage and bechamel sauce; Dark Toffee Bundt, a personal-sized, toffee-flavored Bundt cake; Penguin Cookie, a shortbread cookie iced with a penguin design; and Snowman Cake Pop, a vanilla-flavored cake mixed with buttercream and dipped in a white chocolate icing.

From Salon

On a cafe menu you might see a hot or iced matcha latte, or even a matcha-flavored cake or pastry.

From Salon

“Nobody ever showed puff pastry the way I showed it. Or the glossaries of the apples and the chrysanthemums. And we prided ourselves so much on all of that modernism. And he didn’t get any of that.”

From Salon

As noted by her "Top Chef" bio on the Bravo website, Nguyen "started as a pastry cook at restaurants like Coquette and Eleven Madison Park" before working with Dinner Lab and Cook Space, where she taught classes, hosted pop-up dinners and private events before going all-in on online cooking classes in 2020 and beyond.

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Related Words

• bread
• cake
• croissant
• doughnut
• phyllo
• pie