pastryn.
/ˈpeɪstri/, U.S. /ˈpeɪstri/ 1.
a. Originally: a stiff but malleable mixture of flour moistened with water or milk and kneaded to make dough. In later use: this material with the addition of butter, lard, or other fatty substance, as used to form a base and covering for baked dishes such as pies; this material after being baked, in its edible form. Cf. paste n. 1a. Somewhat rare before 17th cent.Recorded earliest in compounds.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > [noun]
paste1288
breadc1400
pastry1442
1442 in B. Marsh Rec. Worshipful Company Carpenters (1914) II. 7 (MED) Payed for j pastre bowrde.
1449 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 112 (MED) De j tabula pro le pastree, vocata pastrybord, vj d.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Opus pistorium, pasterie woorke.
1626 H. Parrot Epitaphs in Cures for Itch sig. G7v Death through the pastry peeping in disguise, Took poor Tom Cook from making of his pies.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 343 Meats of noblest sort..In pastry built. View more context for this quotation
1742 W. Shenstone School-mistress xxv In Pastry Kings and Queens th'allotted Mite to spend.
1788 G. Colman Ways & Means ii. 37 She'll be in..a fine fuss with preparations for tomorrow, I warrant: up to the neck in beef, gowns, ducks, jewels, ribbons, and puff pastry.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xii. 149 Tarts wherein the raspberry jam coyly withdrew itself..behind a lattice-work of pastry.
1892 A. B. Marshall Larger Cookery Bk. xiv. 528 Prepare a pastry fleur case with paste as below and cook it as for Fleur of Apples.
1906 Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. (rev. ed.) xxxi. 883 The pastry may be used at once, but it will be lighter if allowed to stand for 1 hour.
1966 N. Nelson Your Guide to Syria 73 White cheese mixed with fine rice beaten together with lemon juice until it looks like unbaked pastry.
2000 K. Atkinson Emotionally Weird (2001) 72 Kevin..was stuffing a huge Forfar bridie into his mouth, greasy flakes of pastry adhering to his puffy lips.
b. Articles of food made of pastry, or of which pastry forms an essential part, collectively. Now: spec. pies, tarts, etc., after being baked.Recorded earliest in pastry house n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > [noun] > article(s) made of
bakemeatc1405
pastry1526
baked meat?1560
pastry work1565
paste meat1597
patisserie1784
tabnab1933
1526 in J. S. Brewer Lett. & Papers Reign Henry VIII (1872) (modernized text) IV. ii. 1219 Behind the kitchen southward be goodly larder houses, pastry houses,..slaughter and fish houses.
?1543 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe ix. f. liiii Beware of..spycerye, pastrye, and breed not verye well leuened.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. Y2v Lest rapt from hence, I see thee lye Torn for the use of Pasterie.
1726 J. Barker Lining of Patch-work Screen 95 She..was so ready at all Sauces and savory Meats, all manner of Pickling and Pastry.
1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 124 The diet..includes a large variety of pastry.
1883 A. Thomas Mod. Housewife 14 Ducklings and roast pigeons followed, then some pastry and a well-made soufflé.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. ix. 217 The dominant odor was of hot coffee; but that aroma was carried to still higher delight by a suggestion of pastry.
1991 J. Ashbery Flow Chart iii. 92 It was grand, a truly grand homecoming: lifers off the sauce, raccoons that dodge, cheese and pastry for everybody.
c. A small cake or other confection made wholly or partly of pastry.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > sweet or rich pastries > [noun]
puff1419
curd tart1594
baklava1650
petits choux1702
chou1706
pastry1708
millefeuille1733
pithivier1834
frangipane1844
apple strudel1850
cream puff1851
ensaimada1867
profiterole1884
Napoleon cake1892
strudel1893
milk tart1896
Napoleon1896
St. Honoré1907
cream horn1908
bear claw1915
butterhorn1920
churro1929
vanilla slice1930
Danish pastry1934
gur cake1936
rugelach1941
pain au chocolat1944
religieuse1954
Pop Tart1964
Napoleon pastry1969
1708 J. Oldmixon Brit. Empire in Amer. II. vii. 153 This excellent Production of the Cane in Barbadoes... Most Fruits wou'd be pernicious without it; the finest Pastries cou'd not be made, nor the rich Cordials.
1766 Pennsylvania Gaz. 12 June 3/2 He likewise keeps a large Confectioners Shop, where Ladies and Gentlemen may be supplied with Cakes and Pastries of all Sorts.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hoglin, a homely kind of pastry.
1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xvii. 204 With the pastries and so-on, the heavy drinking began.
1906 Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. (rev. ed.) xxxi. 879 Since the dinner à la Russe banished almost everything of an edible nature from the table, any talent in this direction has been chiefly expended on small pastries.
1960 E. David French Provinc. Cooking 435 The ingredients of good pastries..are very expensive.
1988 M. Spark Far Cry from Kensington iii. 27 They ate sweet cakes and creamy pastries with tea and lemon.
2. The art or skill of a person who makes pastry; pastry-making.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparing pastry, biscuits, or cake > [noun]
pastrya1516
biscuit making1835
pastrycookery1860
a1516 H. Medwall Godely Interlude Fulgens sig. Di v He that can do most maystry Be it in cokery or in pastry.
1673 B. Makin Ess. to revive Antient Educ. Gentlewomen 43 Those that please, may learn Limning, Preserving, Pastry and Cookery.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 314. ⁋ 13 The whole Art of Paistrey and Preserving.
1752 J. Middleton & H. Howard (title) Five hundred new receipts in cookery, confectionery, pastry [etc.].
1848 (title) The family's guide..; together with directions for cookery, pastry, and confectionary.
2003 Newsday (Nexis) 14 May b43 (headline) Savoring the Guyanese art of pastry—in Queens.
3. A place or building where pastry is made. Now historical.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking establishment or kitchen > [noun] > place where pastry made or sold
pastehouse1471
pastry?a1527
pastry shop1656
pasticceria1921
?a1527 in Regulations & Establishm. Househ. Earl of Northumberland (1905) 873 It ys Ordynede at every Remevall that the Stuf of the Kechinge Squillery Lardre and Pastrey shall be apontide ij Cariages.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 10v Hereby is a Backhouse and a Pastrie with two Ouens.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iv. 2 They call for dates and quinces in the Pastrie . View more context for this quotation
?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 150 A Pastery or Larder.
c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 66 Their kitching, pastry, and pantry.
1745 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 149 Pastry: 1 Boulting Mill, two Kneeding Troughs, 1 Flour Bing, and one Bran Bing, [etc.].
1883 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Nov. 81/2 To the right..were..inferior buildings and offices,—kitchens, cellars, pastries, spiceries, bakehouses.
1963 M. Barley in I. L. Foster & L. Alcock Culture & Environment 496 John Aiscough, esquire, of Tadwell, Minister in Sheppey (1600), had a kitchen, a pantry near the kitchen and a pastry as well.
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C1. † pastry-meat n. Obsolete
pastry blender n.
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1938 Amer. Home Jan. 52/1 Cut the shortening into the flour with two knives, scissors fashion. Or use a regular pastry blender, available in housewares departments.
1994 Harrowsmith Apr. 71/2 With pastry blender or two knives, cut butter into dry ingredients until crumbly.
pastry case n.
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1920 E. V. McCollum & N. Simmonds Amer. Home Diet ii. 126 Creamed Chicken in Pastry Cases.
1997 Bakers' Rev. Sept. 82/3 Come and..try a wide range of pre-baked pastry cases suitable for sweet or savoury fillings.
pastry chef n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] > baker > pastry-cook or confectioner
paste-maker1288
pastler?a1439
patisser1538
pasterer1552
confectioner1591
patissier1596
sugar-mana1626
sugar-baker1650
pastry-cook1652
pastry-man1655
pastry chef1890
1890 N.Y. Times 16 Oct. 6/7 Man Cook—By Englishman; can cut raw meats, carve, soup, entrées; pastry chef; just come from the country.
1931 Times 11 Nov. 3/3 (advt.) Baker, Scotch (or pastry chef), good all-round experience.
1994 Minnesota Monthly July 28/1 A pastry chef turns out a wide assortment of desserts.
pastry cutter n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > baker's equipment > pastry cutter
jagging-iron1598
runner1688
twitcher1688
paste cutter1845
cookie cutter1864
jagger1864
pastry cutter1869
cookie press1919
1869 Sci. Amer. 1 May 285 (advt.) Pastry cutter and crimper.
1902 Daily Chron. 25 Jan. 8/4 Stamp them into fancy shapes with a pastry cutter.
2003 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 5 Jan. l3 The art form..starts by using a pastry cutter to trim flattened clay.
pastry-making n.
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1857 E. A. W. Hopkins Ella Lincoln 71 It was a great school for pastry-making, that tavern kitchen.
2003 Guardian (Nexis) 8 Mar. (Weekend Suppl.) 68 If you want to learn more about the science of pastry-making, Peter Barham covers it brilliantly in The Science Of Cooking.
pastry-man n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] > baker > pastry-cook or confectioner
paste-maker1288
pastler?a1439
patisser1538
pasterer1552
confectioner1591
patissier1596
sugar-mana1626
sugar-baker1650
pastry-cook1652
pastry-man1655
pastry chef1890
1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion iii. 76 A famisht Norman..fell into such a passion against the Pastry-man,..that he flung all the Crust of the Pye at his slouching Chops.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 251. ¶10 The Pastry-man, commonly known by the Name of the Colly-Molly-Puff.
1993 J. Gallas Thousand & Second Night in Flying Carpets over Filbert Street 12 The pastry-man smiled, ‘He must be off to seek his fortune, haha.’
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1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks 222 Confects, Neats-Tongues, Bononia Sausages, and fine Pastry-meat.
1820 W. Scott Monastery II. iii. 96 The wafers, flamms, and pastry-meat will scarce have had the just degree of fire, which learned pottingers prescribe as fittest for the body.
pastry pan n.
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1679 Inventory 1 Sept. in Probate Inventories Lincoln (Linc. Rec. Soc.) (1991) 66 1 pastry pann 1 Sawcis pann..1 Cheese plate.
2003 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 8 June (Lifeline section) 23 Place the pastry pan on a rack and cool for five minutes.
pastry puff n.
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1763 J. Bell Trav. from St. Petersburg I. 14 A sort of pastry-puffs, baked over the steam of boiling water.
?1809 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1947) VIII. 792 When lottery-puffs shall be swallowed as eagerly as pastry-puffs by the good people of the United Kingdom.
2003 Boston Globe (Nexis) 10 Aug. b1 Danielle..was picking up a salgadinho called ‘pastel’, a thin rectangle-shaped pastry puff filled with chicken and cheese.
pastry room n.
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1741 in J. S. Moore Goods & Chattels Forefathers (1976) 280 In the Pastry Room One Safe and 2 Benches 4s 0d.
1832 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 2) II. xxvi. 72 Her carriage is ordered at eleven; till that hour she is employed in the pastry-room.
2002 Detroit News (Nexis) 11 Oct. (Weekend section) 12 e The heart of the operation, the spacious kitchen including a pastry room, was ready.
pastry school n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking establishment or kitchen > [noun] > place where pastry made or sold > pastry-school
pastry schoolc1710
c1710 in J. Ashton Social Life Reign of Queen Anne (1882) I. 24 To all Young Ladies at Edw. Kidder's Pastry School in Little Lincoln's Inn Fields, are taught all Sorts of Pastry and Cookery.
1809 Sporting Mag. 33 281 The sewing-school, the pastry-school, were then essential branches of female education.
2002 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 Aug. (Food section) f4 Many pastry schools and community programs also offer gingerbread-house courses.
pastry scraper n.
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pastry scraper1962
1962 Listener 22 Nov. 887/1 Pastry scraper, mixing spoon, and pastry brush.
1992 European Trav. & Life May 74/2 Use a pastry scraper to keep the liquids from running off and to incorporate the last bits of flour into the dough.
pastry shop n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking establishment or kitchen > [noun] > place where pastry made or sold
pastehouse1471
pastry?a1527
pastry shop1656
pasticceria1921
society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling provisions > baked goods or pastry
baker1548
pie house1589
baker's shop1593
bakery1598
cake house1641
pastry shop1656
bakehouse1714
bread shop1773
bakeshop1789
confectionery shop1801
confectionery1803
patisserie1824
cakery1841
bun-shop1889
pasticceria1921
konditorei1935
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xliv. 90 The Pastrey shop in the corner of the Herb-market.
1782 J. Woodforde Diary 25 May (1926) II. 26 I dined at a pastry shop on 3 Cheese Cakes.
1977 ‘S. Leys’ Chinese Shadows (1978) ii. 68 The local pastry shop..sells..strudels and little pink marzipan pigs.
2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 Jan. g5/1 As overwhelmed as a starving man in a pastry shop, I can't decide which to play first.
pastry slab n.
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1855 Godey's Lady's Bk. Mar. 268/2 Puff Paste. Put one pound of flour upon your pastry slab [etc.].
2002 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 19 Apr. (Real Estate section) 1 The pastry slab is marble and granite is around the preparation sink.
pastry vendor n.
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1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 7 The propriety of enforcing the heated pastry-vendor's proposition.
1989 I. McDonald Desolation Road xxxviii. 186 There pastry vendors and whey-faced tourists pushed rudely past them in the laneway.
pastry work n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > [noun] > article(s) made of
bakemeatc1405
pastry1526
baked meat?1560
pastry work1565
paste meat1597
patisserie1784
tabnab1933
1565Pastry work [see sense 1a].
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals (1657) 619 What viands or what banquetting dishes or pastry works he loveth best.
1705 Pastry-cook's Vade-mecum (title page) Receipts for making all sorts of Pastry-work.
2002 Christchurch (N.Z.) Press (Nexis) 24 Oct. iii I have always enjoyed the alchemy of cooking, especially in baking and pastry work.
C2. † pastry-deity n. derogatory Obsolete rare the consecrated Host; cf. bread god n. at bread n. Compounds 4.
pastry bag n. chiefly North American (originally U.S.) a funnel of cloth, paper, etc., usually fitted with a nozzle, through which pastry, icing, or other food of a similar consistency may be piped.
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1884 M. J. Lincoln Boston Cook Bk. (1887) 437 A Pastry Bag... Fold two opposite corners together, stitch along the edge, and make a triangular bag. Cut off at the point to make an opening large enough to insert the end of a tin tube.
1895 ‘M. Ronald’ Cent. Cook Bk. xxi. 468 Make a layer of Genoese..press it through a pastry bag in lines onto the tins.
2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 78 Spoon your mashed potatoes in here—or better, pipe the spuds in with a pastry bag.
pastry board n. a board on which pastry is rolled out, cut into shapes, etc., before baking; cf. pasteboard n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > baker's equipment > bread or pastry board
pennybred?c1300
moulding board1327
pastry board1442
pasteboard1452
bakbrade1457
bred1538
bakeboard1545
panel1612
pie board1691
breadboard1761
board1845
1442Pastry board [see sense 1a].
1860 Sci. Amer. 11 Feb. 109/1 An Improved Pastry Board.
2002 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 5 Nov. (Features) 32 Mix the ground rice and almonds and sprinkle evenly over a pastry board.
pastry brush n. a small brush used to spread beaten egg, milk, or melted butter over pastry, so as to glaze it or to form a seal at the edge of a pie, pasty, etc.
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pastry brush1891
1891 Freeborn County Standard (Albert Lea, Minn.) 15 Apr. 7/4 Dip a pastry brush into the glaze and use in brushing over boiled tongues, breasts of roast fowls.
1948 P. Harben Way to Cook (rev. ed.) x. 203 Moisten right round the edge of your sheet of paste (a pastry brush is the best tool for this job).
2003 Detroit Free Press (Nexis) 14 Jan. (Food news section) With a pastry brush, remove the remnants of soy that cling to the cookies.
pastry cream n. [compare French crême pâtissière (1750)] a thick, sweet, vanilla custard used in filling cakes and pastries.
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1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery (ed. 2) xvi. 361 Crême patissière, or pastry cream.
1892 Encycl. Pract. Cookery I. 246/1 Lay in a Napoleon-cake pan..a layer of puff paste, spread over that a layer of pastry cream.
1997 J. Steingarten Man who ate Everything iii. 216 Less admirable were the rubbery pastry cream, the dry chocolate soufflés,..and several of the sauces.
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1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.7) i. 424 They fall downe upon their knees, and thump their brests, as beating the heart that will not enough beleeve in that pastry-deity.
pastry house n. †(a) a house in which pastry is made (obsolete); (b) a shop in which pastries are sold; (c) a company that manufactures pastries.
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1526Pastry house [see sense 1b].
1539 R. Cromwell Let. 24 Apr. in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) II. 220 Jennyns sergeant of your graces pasterye house.
1986 Nation's Restaurant News (Nexis) 6 Oct. 3 The Peabody's Cafe Expresso ‘is a combination New York-style deli and Viennese pastry house’.
2002 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 18 Dec. f13/1 As soon as we start to work on a flavor, other pastry houses find out.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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