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What does pastry mean?

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Noun
  1. A baked food group which contains items made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.
  2. (uncountable) The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.
  3. (obsolete) The place where pastry is made.
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A peppery, spinach-and-feta-stuffed turnover of brittle phyllo pastry is a kick.
For an elegant light meal, I line crisp pastry tartlets with smoked salmon, fill them with warm scrambled eggs and top with a little caviar.
Lunch, or dinner as it was called, consisted of soups, pasties or sandwiches, vegetables, and some sort of pastry for afters.
Roll out the pasta dough into a sheet and stamp out 7.5cm rounds with a pastry cutter.
Substitute whole-wheat pastry flour for bleached white flour to decrease the carbohydrate count and add fiber.
Cover each tart with a puff pastry circle and bake until the puff pastry is golden and crisp, about ten minutes.

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