pastry

English

Almond pastries (1)

Etymology

From Middle English pastre, pastri, from pastree (variant of pasterie, from Old French pastaierie and Medieval Latin pasteria, from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)) or paste + -ri (modern paste +‎ -ry).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪstɹi/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪstɹi

Noun

pastry (countable and uncountable, plural pastries)

2. (countable) A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.

   That pastry shop sells not just pastries, but all kinds of baked goods.

3. (uncountable) The food group formed by the various kinds of pastries.

   That pastry shop sells not just pastry, but all kinds of baked goods.

4. (uncountable) The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.
5. (countable, obsolete) A place where pastry is made.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], line 2:

     They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.

6. (uncountable) The act or art of making pastry.

   He learned pastry from the great Gaston Lenôtre.

7. (uncountable, culinary industry) Desserts of all kinds, whether or not these incorporate the baked item made from flour and fat, or that section of a kitchen that prepares these.

   I used to work in the fish section, but now I've been moved to pastry.

Derived terms

• choux pastry
• cigarette pastry
• Danish pastry
• filo pastry
• flakey pastry
• flaky pastry
• French pastry
• pastry bag
• pastry chef
• pastry cook
• pastry cream
• pastry flour
• pastry fork
• pastryless
• pastrylike
• pastrymaker
• pastrymaking
• pastry shop
• pastry stout
• Pastry War
• pastry wheel
• phyllo pastry
• puff pastry
• shortcrust pastry
• short pastry

 

Translations

food group

• Arabic: معجّنة (mʕajjne)
• Armenian: թխվածք (hy) (tʻxvackʻ), խմորեղեն (hy) (xmoreġen)
• Belarusian: піро́г m (piróh)
• Breton: kwignoù
• Bulgarian: тестено изделие n (testeno izdelie), сладкиш m (sladkiš) (sweet pastry), сладки (bg) f pl (sladki) (sweet pastry), соленка f (solenka) (salty pastry)
• Catalan: pastissos (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 糕餅 / 糕饼 (gou¹ beng²)

  Mandarin: 糕點 / 糕点 (zh) (gāodiǎn), 點心 / 点心 (zh) (diǎnxin), 糕餅 / 糕饼 (zh) (gāobǐng)

• Cornish: hogen f
• Czech: pečivo (cs) n
• Danish: bagværk (da) n
• Dutch: gebak (nl) n, banket (nl) n
• Esperanto: farunaĵo
• Estonian: saiake
• Faroese: baksturvøra f
• Finnish: leivos (fi), leivonnaiset, konditoriatuotteet
• French: pâtisserie (fr) f
• Galician: pastel m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Backwerk (de) n (pastry and bread), Gebäck (de) n (pastry and bread), Feingebäck (de) n
• Greek: αρτοσκεύασμα (el) n (artoskévasma), γλύκισμα (el) n (glýkisma)
• Hebrew: מאפה (he) m (ma'afé)
• Hungarian: sütemény (hu), cukrászsütemény (hu)
• Icelandic: bakkelsi (is) n
• Indonesian: kue (id), pastri, patiseri (id)
• Irish: taosrán m, pastae m
• Italian: pasticceria (it) f, paste (it) pl
• Japanese: 菓子 (ja) (かし, kashi), ペースト (ja) (pēsuto), ペーストリー (ja) (pēsutorī)
• Korean: 페이스트리 (peiseuteuri), 빵과자 (ppanggwaja)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: crustum n, lucuns m, lucunculus m
• Macedonian: печиво n (pečivo)
• Malay: pastri
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bakverk (no) n

• Persian: شیرینی (fa)
• Polish: pieczywo cukiernicze n, wypiek (pl) m (pastry and bread)
• Portuguese: pastelaria (pt) m
• Russian: вы́печка (ru) f (výpečka), мучны́е конди́терские изде́лия n pl (mučnýje kondíterskije izdélija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пе̏цӣво n

  Roman: pȅcīvo (sh) n

• Slovak: pečivo n
• Spanish: pastel (es) m, pastelería (es) f
• Swedish: bakverk (sv) n, bakelse (sv) c
• Taos: pòstaléna
• Turkish: hamur işi (tr)
• Ukrainian: ви́пічка f (výpička)
• Welsh: teisen (cy) f, cacen (cy) f

type of dough

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 油酥面團 / 油酥面团 (yóusū miàntuán)

• Cornish: past m
• Finnish: torttutaikina, pullataikina (fi), murotaikina (fi)
• German: Gebäckteig m
• Hungarian: édes tészta
• Italian: impasto (it) m
• Korean: 페이스트리 반죽 (peiseuteuri banjuk)
• Norman: pâte dé pâté f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: butterdeig m

• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: toes (cy) m (uncooked), crwst m (uncooked)

Further reading

• pastry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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