Sentence examples for pastry from inspiring English sources

One method, using a "pricking iron", which looks like a fork, is laborious and hard to get straight; the other uses a "pricking wheel" – like a pastry edger – which zips along neatly but is much less satisfying.

I love the texture of cooked filo, but I hate working with it, because I inevitably end up with a pile of torn, scrunched up and dried out pastry scraps.

Seal and Butcher both make baklava rolls, rather than the more conventional layered pastries; it's a quicker method, but a less satisfying one, as the smaller ratio of pastry to filling allows them to absorb less syrup.

Most recipes add the syrup as soon as or shortly after the pastries come out of the oven, so it can be absorbed as they cool, but Roden shares a highly "unorthodox secret trick" of her aunt Latifa's – she returns the syrupy baklava to the oven for five minutes, explaining that "the pastry made this way is among the best I have eaten".

Crisp nutty pastry, a moussey bitter-chocolate middle and dark chewy prunes.

But in a pie – well, that's two Great British traditions rolled into one crumbly pastry case.

5 Use a 6cm round pastry cutter to stamp out the biscuits, then arrange these on the prepared baking trays.

You can use a pastry bag or a tiny ice-cream scoop for filling the paper cups or wells, in place of the measuring cup.

Any tart, quiche or pie recipe that doesn't blind bake the pastry base before adding the filling is wrong.

Her PA pops into the office with a stack of papers topped with a Danish pastry, and we head across to the boardroom.

Éric takes his vegetables from the potager, turning them into Ardèche specialities such as croustillant de picodon (goat's cheese in pastry).