Pastry
Pastry is a bread dough made with wheat flour and sometimes egg. It has a flaky texture and is baked.
- May contain egg
- Contains gluten
- Allergen: wheat
- Allergen: gluten cereals
About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details
- Category
- Breads & baking
- Texture
- Flaky
- Cooked most in
- Africa
- Top country
- Algeria
- Dishes
- 2 in the catalogue
Photo: Silar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
In the kitchen
How to use pastry
Typical ways to cook or use it
- Bake
Made from
- wheat flour
- egg (sometimes)
Cooking with it
Avoid overmixing, which can make pastry tough. Blind-bake a pie or tart crust before filling to help prevent a soggy base.
Flavour
Taste and texture
Texture
- Flaky
On the table
Dishes made with pastry
Bourek
Algeria
Cherry pie
Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include pastry.
Good to know
Diet and allergens: pastry in detail
- Allergens
- Contains: wheat, gluten cerealsSometimes eggs (only when the optional ingredient is used)
- Animal origin
- Sometimes egg (only when the optional ingredient is used)
- Gluten
- Contains
Family
Related forms
- Kinds
- puff pastry
Around the world
What pastry is called
Spanish
repostería · pastelería · reposteria · pasteleria
French
pâtisserie · patisserie
Italian
pasticceria · prodotto di pasticceria
Portuguese
pastelaria · pastel · pastéis
German
Gebäck · Backwaren
Dutch
gebak
Greek
αρτοσκεύασμα
Turkish
Pasta · Pasta-tatlı
Russian
выпечка · пироги
Polish
wypieki
Arabic
معجنات · ساليزونات · المعجنات · مخبوزات
Persian
شیرینی
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Afrikaans
gebak
Armenian
թխվածք
Asturian
repostería
Azerbaijani
Şirniyyat
Bangla
সেঁকা ময়দার সুখাদ্য · পেস্ট্রি
Bashkir
ҡамыр аштары · бөйөрөк · пирог · икмәк
Basque
gozogintza
Belarusian
выпечка
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
выпечка · печыва · выпек
Bosnian
Pecivo
Breton
gwastell
Bulgarian
тестено изделие
Cantonese
西餅
Catalan
rebosteria
Chinese
糕点 · 糕餅 · 酥皮糕點 · 糕
Chuvash
Пĕçерĕм
Czech
pečivo
Danish
bagværk
Egyptian Arabic
معجنات
Esperanto
bakaĵo
Estonian
Küpsetis
Fijian
Keke
Filipino
Pastelerya
Finnish
leivonnainen
Galician
repostaría
Hebrew
מגדנאות · קונדיטוריה · קונדיטור
Hindi
पेस्ट्री
Hungarian
cukrászsütemény · sütemény
hyw
Թխուածք
Indonesian
Pastri
Irish
taosrán
Japanese
ペイストリー · ペストリー · ゲベック · パスティッチェリーア
Javanese
kue pastri
Kannada
ಪೇಸ್ಟ್ರಿ
Korean
페이스트리 · 패스트리 · 페스트리 · 페스추리
Kyrgyz
Нан бышыруу
Latvian
mīklas izstrādājums · cepšana no mīklas
Literary Chinese
糕
Lithuanian
kepinys
Luxembourgish
Patisserie
Macedonian
печиво
Malay
pastri · kuih pastri
Malay (Arabic)
ڤستري
Malayalam
പേസ്ട്രി
Marathi
पेस्ट्री
Mazanderani
شرنی
Minangkabau
roti
Norwegian Bokmål
bakverk
Norwegian Nynorsk
bakverk
Occitan
pastissariá
Romanian
patiserie
Sardinian
Ofelleria
Scots
pastry
Scottish Gaelic
Pastra · Peustraidh · Pastry
Serbian
пециво
Serbian (Cyrillic)
пециво
Serbian (Latin)
Pecivo
Serbian (Latin)
pecivo
Simplified Chinese
糕点
Simplified Chinese (China)
糕点
Simplified Chinese (Singapore)
糕点
Slovak
pečivo
Slovenian
pecivo
Swedish
bakverk · bakelse
Swiss German
Gebäck · Bachware
Swiss High German
Gebäck
Thai
แป้งพาย
Traditional Chinese
糕點
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)
糕點
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
糕點
Ukrainian
тістечко
Upper Sorbian
pječwo
Vietnamese
pastry · bánh pastry · bánh bột nhào · bánh ngọt
Võro
Küdsüs
Walloon
Påstedjreye · Påsreye
Welsh
crwst
West Flemish
Gebak
Wu Chinese
糕点
Sources and credits
Data
- GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
- Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
- Wikimedia Commons: photos
Wikidata item: Q477248
Photos
Photo: Silar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons