No, although biscuits may be sold in a pastry shop, they are not a type of pastry. A "pastry" has to contain some pastry to be a pastry. Pastry is generally designed to be light and crumbly, whereas biscuits are not.
It depends on the type of product you are looking at. Depending on the type of bread, you may want it softer or with more of a crust. Some qualities to look for in general are.... * Taste (bread, pastry) * Freshness (bread, pastry) * Flakyness (pastry) * Airyness (bread, pastry) * Softeness (bread, pastry) * Buttery taste (pastry) * Sweetness (pastry) * Crust (bread) * Consistency (bread, pastry) * Not too dry / chalky (bread, pastry) * Density / Denseness (bread, pastry)
Not sure what you mean. NO food is unhealthy. What is unhealthy is over indulgence in any particular type of food. Over eat and you gain weight with any resultant health problems.
It's a type of pastry.
pastis
That is the correct spelling "danish" (sometimes capitalized) for the type of filled pastry.
Because the more the food is unhealthy the higher it will be on the pyramid, but follow the new diet pyramid
It is a cake.
There are oil base and water base, as well graham cracker type. Addition: Or they can be classified as Sweet pastry (for sweet pies) and puff pastry, shortcrust pastry, filo pastry. (all used as pie crusts!)
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.
short pastry (the most popular and can be sweet or savoury) rough-puff pastry suet pastry flaky pastry hot water crust pastry choux pastry
Most finer restaurants have pastry chefs, so any large city.