Pastries

Cream Puffs

The first step is the choux pastry shell. This involves bringing water, salt, butter, and a tiny bit of sugar to a boil and quickly beating in flour until you make a paste. This paste needs to cook just a bit and dry out just a bit before it is […]

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Pie Crust #1

Making a flaky, tender pie crust requires several steps, including chilling the ingredients and dough at different points. Chilling the dough does two things: (1) it keeps the solid fat solid so that it will melt during baking, leaving flaky layers, and (2) it helps prevent the formation of gluten […]