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Why do the flour grains need to be coated in butter when making pastry?
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∙ 13y ago
Flour is mixed with butter and other ingredients when making pastry. Individual grains of flour are too small to consider whether they are "coated in butter" in that process.
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What can be added to butter when making pastry?
Sieved flour, milk and water, with a pinch of salt.
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.
What is the role of butter in pastry?
Butter is what makes the crust flakey, instead of hard.
Is pastry margarine used for puff pastry because it freezes well or has high melting point?
Pastry margarine performs better than butter in making puff pastry because of its high melting point. It does not melt quickly, thus allowing time for the puff pastry dough to rise sufficiently high while not making it heavy and soggy. Then as the temperature increases, the pastry margarine will then melt and infuse into the risen pastry, giving it its scrumptious flavor.
How do you make pastry?
you mix flour, water and margarine/butter together. put it in the pastry design you want cook it then you get a pastry!
What is the tool used to cut butter into flour?
You can use a pastry cutter, knife and fork or pastry blender.
What does the term short mean in shortcrust pastry?
the pastry has as much flour inside it asa it does butter. e.g. if you had 20g of flour you would also have to put 20g of butter into the mixture to form the pastry.
What is a pastry that starts with z?
zeepole is an italian pastry like desert with is extremly tasty with peanut butter
Why is ratio and proportion of ingredients important when making pastry?
why is ration and proportion inportant when making pastry
How do you they get the peanut butter inside the pretzels?
when they roll out the pastry they spread a layer of peanut butter onto the pastry then cut the amount they need to make a pretzel and roll it into the shape. Then when they cook it ta- DA! the peanut butter is inside a pretzel
What is the use of pastry brushes?
To brush oil or melted butter
What foods are representative of Canada?
Beaver tails (pastry/waffle) Poutine (fries covered with white cheese curd and gravy) Canadian Back Bacon (peameal coated smoked pork loin) Nanaimo bars Tourtiere Butter Tarts ketchup chips
