puff pastry
Noun
Meaning
puff pastry (countable and uncountable, plural puff pastries)
A light, flaky pastry that is made of alternating buttery and floury dough layers by repeatedly folding the rolled pastry into many layers.
Alternative names
puff-pastry
Synonyms
Examples
Follow the thawing instructions on the packaging of your puff pastry.
Also, a lot of the dohn-tot recipes I've come across have a shortbread crust as opposed to the delicate but much more labor intensive puff pastry shell.
I highly recommend buying precut pareve puff pastry.
Puff pastry differs from phyllo (filo) pastry, though puff pastry can be substituted for phyllo in some applications.
Since shortenings and lard have a higher melting point, puff pastry made with either will rise more than pastry made with butter if made correctly; however it will often have a waxy mouthfeel and a blander flavor.
Warm, Quorn mince inside that classic Greggs puff pastry is a good combination.