Pastry Flashcards
What type of pastry is used to to make profiteroles?
Choux
What type of pastry is used to make quiche?
Shortcrust
If you add sugar and egg to shortcrust pastry what type of pastry does it make?
Sweet shortcrust or pate sucree
What type of pastry would you use to make samosas?
Filo
What type of pastry would you use to make spring rolls?
Filo
When making shortcrust and rough puff pastry what temperature should your ingredients be?
Cold
Pastry should always be cooked in what temperature oven?
Hot
What type of fat will give shortcrust pastry a rich flavour and golden brown colour?
Butter
What type of fat will give shortcrust pastry a very crumbly texture?
Margarine
Pastry is high in which unhealthy nutrient?
Fat
The flour used in pastry in high in what nutrient?
Starchy carbohydrates
When colour should cooked pastry be?
Golden brown
What qualities should shortcrust pastry have?
Crumbly (short), golden brown, rich taste.
What qualities should filo pastry have?
Golden brown colour, very flaky, very thin.
What qualities should choux pastry have?
Golden brown, hollow, crisp.