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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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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.
We use pastry trimmings for our tarts, as the pastry rises less and gives a fine, crisp finish.
I make little tarts with a nice buttery pastry whipped up in the food processor.
I had set to the task of making approximately 350 small choux pastry shells.
Roll out the pasta dough into a sheet and stamp out 7.5cm rounds with a pastry cutter.

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