Pastry

The word 'pastry' comes from 'paste', which means the combination of flour, liquid and fat. Pastry and bread are not the same, because pastry has more fat rather than bread. That's why, pastry has light and airy textures.

What kind of pastry you will find nowadays? There are danish, croissant, puff, strudel and phyllo, short paste and eclair paste.
What's the difference between those pastry? The ingredients has similar, but the technique is quietly different.
In this category, we will find out and learn to make those pastry.

Basic ingredients:
- Flour (bread flour & cake flour)
- Yeast (active dry yeast, instant dry yeast, and compressed yeast)
- Fat (butter, margarine, pastry margarine or korsvet, shortening)
- Sugar (granulated, castor, icing, brown)
- Egg
- Milk
- Salt