A pastry store owner can do everything from go bankrupt, to breaking even, to bringing in a modest profit that would be comparable to $35,000 to $55,000 a year, to in the case of some extreme examples, be moving several millions of dollars of pastry per year.
A baker on the other hand is a wage or salary employee. It varies per region, but $45,000 could be taken as an average.
Traditionally short crust pastry, but now they are also made with puff pastry.
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A "pastry" is a tart or flan with a pastry base with either a sweet or savory topping. Alternatively, a "pastry" can also refer to a yeasted and laminated dough (i.e puff pastry with yeast added) used for making danish pastrys and the like. Hence a croissant is a pastry. And a pastry is a type of food, food is not a completely separate thing.
Generally people in restaurants and food service establishments that make desserts are known as "Pastry Chefs". Some baker's also make desserts as well as breads and baked goods. One other option is a wedding cake specialist.
No, puff pastry is often purchased in the freezer section of the store next to the frozen pies and pie crusts. Puff pastry is painstakingly created by folding and rolling out sheets of dough with layers of butter so that when they bake the water in the butter creates steam and "puffs" the layers of dough, creating the soft, flaky texture that puff pastry is known for. Won ton wrappers are more closely related to pasta dough I believe.
Pastry bags can be purchased in many places. Try your local grocery store, you can even check with your local bakery and ask them if they would be willing to sell you some. Amazon is also a really good place to get them. Their pricing is really good and a good way to buy things in bulk.
It helps to bind the pastry ingredients together it also adds moisture and richness to to the mixture.
Generally speaking, candy is made by a confectioner. However, pastry chefs also make confectionery items.
You can use short pastry to make biscuits and cheese twirls. The pastry is nice and crumbly and is great with cheese also try chocolate drizzled on top .To make cheese twirls mix in cheese with the pastry then shape it and bake the biscuit will have a cheesey tang to them.
The TLC network offers many ideas, recipes, and how to's on how to make different kinds of pastries. You can learn how also at http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/tools-and-techniques/how-to-make-pastries.htm
I think they generally make the turnover a turnover and they also make the filling all warm plus they taste better with the pastry.
Pastry boards are usually used to enable easy measuring of how big the area of pastry that you've rolled out is (there's usually a set of circular and square marking on the board). They are also non-stick, which means they require little extra flour to facilitate the rolling out of the pastry. Since pastry gets tough the more flour that is incorporated, this is a big advantage. Also, they make transferring rolled out pastry into a tin or case slightly easier than using a rolling pin.