pâte feuilletée
Flaky French pastry
Pâte feuilletée is French for puff pastry—the laminated dough made by folding butter into flour repeatedly to create hundreds of flaky layers.
The term appears on menus and in cookbooks when emphasizing classical technique: The chef wrapped the beef Wellington in pâte feuilletée.
English speakers usually just say puff pastry.
- laminatedBonded between protective layers
- flakyCrumbly or unreliable
- palmierMore tropical-seeming
- butteryRich like a spread
- doughFlour-liquid mixture for baking
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pastry structure/texture
pâte feuilletéeshortcrust pastry
Crumbly baked pie shell
choux pastry · pie dough · cookie dough · filo pastry · biscuit dough