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pastry cream

British

noun

Also called: pastry custard. a creamy custard, often flavoured, used as a filling for éclairs, flans, etc

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THE RECIPE: The pie, while multipartite in construction, keeps the ingredients simple and pure: lots of butter for the crust, rich dairy throughout, real vanilla bean in the pastry cream.

From Seattle Times • May 3, 2023

Key ingredients in the crust are rice flour and pastry cream powder, Ramsay shared in an email to The Post.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2022

You're going to layer it with pastry cream, top with another square of choux, and cover the whole thing in chocolate ganache.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2022

But I loved the pain aux raisins, an escargot-shaped brioche pastry made the traditional French way, loaded with raisins, kept soft and nice by a subtle amount of pastry cream.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2019

His trembling hands whipped pastry cream as light as a shroud.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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