Q2 WEEK 1 - PIES AND PASTRIES Flashcards
is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients.
Pie
may be filled with fruit, nuts, brownsugar, sweetened vegetables, or with thicker fillings based on eggs and dairy.
Sweet Pies
may be filled with meat, eggs and cheese or a mixture of meat and vegetables.
Savoury Pies
- has one crust only
- can be pre-baked then filled with a cooked or uncooked filling.
- crust and filling can be cooked together.
ex: Cream, custard, and fruit pie
Single Crust Pie
- has top and bottom crust
- usually filled with cooked filling.
Ex. Fruit and savory pie
Two-crust pie
comes from the word “paste” meaning a mixture of flour, liquid
and fat; are made with a high proportion of fat to flour with a small
amount of liquid.
Ex. Pies, tarts, and turnovers.
Pastry
the simplest and most common pastry. It is made with flour, fat, butter, salt and water. This is used mainly in tarts.
Short-crust pastry
is a flaky light pastry made from a laminated dough composed of dough and butter or other solid fat. It has many layers that caused it
to expand or puff when baked.
Puff Pastry
a very light pastry often filled with cream and often topped with
chocolate.
Choux Pastry
is a paper-thin pastry dough, used in many layers.
Phyllo Pastry
TIPS IN MAKING PASTRY
TIPS IN PASTRY MAKING
Use all purpose flour.
Lard or solid fat makes a flaky pastry.
Used 4T fat for every cup of flour.
Use less salt if the fat is already salted.