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Is Chocolate eclairs made from puff pastry?
No. Eclairs are made from choux pastry. Choux pastry involves cooking flour,butter and water, then adding egg. The egg acts as a leavening agent in a choux pastry. A puff pastry uses layers of butter or other solid fat between a bread type dough that puffs up due to air and water expansion between layers of fat and dough for leavening, it does not contain egg.
What is the difference between choix pastry and puff pastry?
the advantages of making Choux Pastry at home are : It is Cheaper and they are fresher. Also very 'Yummy'the disadvantages : they may not com out right, may have a sour taste, or be the wrong size etc....
What types of fat are used for pastry?
Any kind of shortening (fat) can be used for making pastry. Butter makes a melt-in-the-mouth delicious pastry.
Whats the difference between flaky and puff pastry?
Puff pastry involves layering butter into a shortcrust pastry, then completing a process of folding and rolling and folding again, in order to obtain many thin layers of butter spread within thin layers of pastry. When the pastry cooks, the fat in the butter keeps the layers separate, while the water content expands into steam and forces the layer apart. In a rough puff pastry, chunks of butter in mixed onto the pastry as it is made, and the pastry mix needs only be rolled once. with the lumps of butter within the pastry, the same effect happens, but over a small localised areas. The effect is the same, but the rough puff doesn't rise quite as much, and finishes with a rough texture. It is, of course, much quicker to make. Use it when the pastry will not be on show, such as for the base of tarts and the like.
What is the of fat to flour in puff pastry?
Various types of pastries can be formed depending upon how much fat is used in comparison to flour. The generally accepted amounts of fat per unit of flour are: 1) Short crust - 50% 2) Choux - 60% 3) Flaky - 66%-75% 4) Puff - 100% 5) Suet - 25%-50% 6) Hot water crust - 30% So, for puff pastries, mixing equal measures of fat to flour is reportedly ideal.
What is the purpose of the fat in pastry?
There is really no reason, it just is in a pastry because you need oil to make it
How many calories do you need to gain 1kg weight?
The short answer is 7700 extra calories will make you gain 1kg of fat
What is the ratio of fat to flour in puff pastry?
Various types of pastries can be formed depending upon how much fat is used in comparison to flour. The generally accepted amounts of fat per unit of flour are: 1) Short crust - 50% 2) Choux - 60% 3) Flaky - 66%-75% 4) Puff - 100% 5) Suet - 25%-50% 6) Hot water crust - 30% So, for puff pastries, mixing equal measures of fat to flour is reportedly ideal.
Causes of pastry defects?
some defects of pastry might be under -cooking,over-cooking too "short" meaning too much shortening (fat) too dry or too moist
Why is there fat in suet pastry?
Because suet is pork fat. It is the hard fat around the kidneys in pigs.
How do you rub fat into pastry correctly?
Matt langford
What is the function of lard in pastry?
Fat and taste i think
