pastry

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a baked food made from dough rich in fat, often filled or topped with sweet or savory ingredients

   The cafe served a warm fruit pastry with breakfast.

2. 2
   noun

   the flour-and-fat dough used to make pies, tarts, and similar baked foods

   Chill the pastry before rolling it out for the pie.

3. 3
   noun

   the branch of cookery concerned with making pastries and desserts

   After training in pastry, she joined the hotel's dessert kitchen.

From Middle English pastri or pastree, related to paste + -ry. Paste came through Old French and Late Latin pasta from Greek words for a flour or barley mixture. Pastry first referred broadly to the craft and products of working paste-like dough before settling on the rich dough and baked goods familiar today.

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