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Small Hot Patties
Two rounds of puff-paste, one hazelnut of savory forcemeat, and a clean water seal: petits pâtés chauds rise crisp and butter-gold in a hot oven, ready to pass before dinner.
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Mousseline Brioche Paste
Ordinary brioche takes one exact measure of butter and a patient rise in the mould, becoming so light and silken that it can cradle fruit without losing its tender crumb.
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Ordinary Brioche Paste
Pâte à brioche ordinaire teaches enriched dough properly: wake the leaven, build strength before the last egg, then work in pliable butter by stages and let one long fermentation do its quiet work.
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Ordinary Brioche Paste (Lean, Rolling-Pin Consistency)
Pâte à brioche ordinaire, butter-rich yet firm, teaches the useful side of brioche: slow fermentation, disciplined mixing, and a dough that rolls cleanly for lining, wrapping, and every sturdy pastry job.
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The Buttering and Glazing of Moulds
The smallest pâtisserie discipline decides whether a cake leaves its mould intact: clarified butter in every corner, followed by the lightest veil of dry flour or fécule.
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Pâte à Biscuit Manque
Six yolks, beaten to a thick ribbon, give this rum-scented biscuit manqué its entire rise and fine golden crumb, with no whisked whites and no leavening to lend a hand.
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Punch Biscuit Paste
Pâte à biscuit punch rises on two foams: yolks and whole eggs beaten pale, then whites folded last. Citrus sugars and good rum perfume a tender, butter-rich ring cake set in a moderate oven.
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Pâte à Génoise Fine
Pâte à Génoise Fine rises on warm-whisked whole eggs alone, then takes sifted flour and melted butter by the gentlest fold, making a fine golden cake ready for a birthday or celebration.
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Glace à l’Ancienne
Icing sugar, fragrance, and the gentlest warmth make a thin, opaque glaze that flows cleanly over a cooled cake and dries fast. The whole technique is knowing when to stop heating.
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Ordinary Génoise Paste for Cutting Up
Whole-egg foam gives Pâte Génoise Ordinaire à Découper its lift; baked one and a quarter inches deep, it rises into a firm, fine crumb made for clean layers and celebration cakes.
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Savarin Paste
Pâte à savarin turns flour, eggs, yeast, and generous butter into a fine, springy honeycomb, with sugar held until the paste is elastic and the mould filled only one-third high.
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Pâte à Baba
A butter-rich savarin paste beaten until elastic, then finished with currants, sultanas, and optional Malaga raisins. Fill each mould only one-third, and it rises into a light, fruit-studded baba.
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Savoy-biscuit Paste
Biscuit de Savoie rises on egg foam alone: ribboned yolks, equal weights of flour and potato starch, and stiff whites folded last for a tall, golden cake whose crumb stays feather-dry and light.
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Vegetable Colouring Matters
Three pastry colours, one disciplined hand: carmine, spinach green, and yellow kept as clean stocks, then blended drop by drop until the confection hints at fruit, leaf, or gold without becoming a paint box.
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Almond Paste
Pâte d’amandes is the quiet foundation of French confectionery: equal weights of almonds and sugar, bound just enough with egg white, worked cool and smooth for candies, cakes, and pastry fillings.
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Pralin
Pralin in its two classical forms: a supple almond glaze for cakes and fruit entremets, or old-gold almond nougat ground fine for soufflés, custards, and ices.
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Candied Fruit
Fruits confits are the French pastry cupboard in jewel form: angelica, golden and green chinois, cherries, plums, and pears, bought ready-made, drained carefully, and cut with intent for cakes worth celebrating.
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Pistachios
Pistaches mondées teach the discipline of the pastry pantry: scald only long enough to loosen the skin, then work quickly so every nut stays fresh, vivid, and ready for the confectioner.
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The Cooking of Sugar
Seven states, one pan, and no room for wandering: learn petit filet, grand boulé, grand cassé, and caramel by temperature and a safe cold-water test, catching crystallization before it ruins the batch.
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Melting Almond Paste (for Stuffing and Imitating Fruit)
A hot small-crack syrup turns finely crushed almonds into a supple pâte d’amandes fondante, ready to fill prunes while tender or cool into fruit-shaped confections with a clean, yielding bite.
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Sugar Grains
Loaf sugar becomes clean, even grains through rough pounding and two sieves, then warm cooked apricot fixes them to a cake border. The lesson is simple: grade the sugar, and never trust a dry surface.
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Coloured Sugar Grains
Plain sugar, one measured drop of vegetable colour, and gentle drying make even, free-flowing grains that keep beautifully and give petits fours, biscuits, and confections a clean flash of colour.
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Various Almond Preparations
Five almond preparations, one discipline: remove the skins cleanly, dry every kernel through, then cut, toast, or cloak it in pale caramel without letting its fragrant oils escape.
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Sucre en Glace (Icing Sugar)
Pure sugar, ground and sieved until it moves like starch, then dredged white or flashed beneath fierce heat into a brilliant caramel glaze for Soufflés, fritters, custards, and Pannequets.
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Various Preparations of Filberts and Hazel-nuts
A pastry pantry lesson in one tray: filberts warmed only until their red skins release, rubbed clean, cooled, and chopped into a fragrant mise-en-place for cakes, creams, pralines, and petits fours.
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Glace au Fondant
Controlled crystallization, made visible: sugar stops at 230°F, then every patch is folded and scraped until the clear syrup becomes a white, supple fondant ready to glaze petits fours.
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Melting Pistachio Paste
Pâte de pistaches fondante turns skinned pistachios, almonds, vanilla syrup, and precisely cooked sugar into a satin-smooth confectionery paste, firm enough to shape and tender enough to disappear under the teeth.
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Meringue à l’Italienne
Glossy, stable Meringue à l’Italienne from stiff whites and large-ball sugar syrup, timed to finish together and joined in one unbroken pour for mousses, parfaits, and celebration desserts.
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How to Beat the Whites of Eggs
Four whites, one spotless bowl, and a patient change of speed: whisk gently until loosened, then briskly to glossy stiffness, with powdered sugar waiting if the foam begins to granulate.
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Meringue à l’Italienne (another recipe)
Meringue à l’Italienne teaches control: powdered sugar and whites held lukewarm, then whisked until a glossy bridge spans the whisk, with no cooked syrup and no pastry brigade.
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Pistachio Paste for Infusion
Pâte de pistaches teaches a quiet rule of pastry: grind the nut perfectly smooth before the milk arrives, then let gentle infusion, a trace of vanilla, and restrained colour do the rest.
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Dumpling and Pudding Pastes
Dry beef suet chopped to pinpoints, drawn gradually into flour, then massed without kneading: this simple pâte is the tender foundation for the canon’s dumplings and basin puddings.
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Common Pâte à Choux (for Fritters, Gnocchi, Dauphine)
The lean pâte à choux that teaches restraint: keep the panade moist, beat in fewer eggs, and it stays supple enough to puff as beignets, poach as gnocchi, or lighten pommes dauphine.
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Ordinary Pâte à Choux
Pâte à choux teaches controlled drying: boil, beat, dry, then take the eggs two at a time. Get the panade right and the oven gives you crisp, hollow shells.
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Ramequins and Gougère Paste
Pâte à gougère teaches the order that makes savory choux rise: milk in the pan, eggs absorbed completely, diced Gruyère folded in last, then a confident bake to bronzed, hollow puffs.
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Lady’s-finger Biscuit Paste
Ribboned yolks, stiff whites, and a careful spatula make these orange-flower biscuits rise without leavening, while powdered sugar and a few drops of water bake into their proper pearled crust.
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Ordinary Meringue
Meringue ordinaire turns two ingredients into crisp, pale kisses: beat the whites as stiff as they will go, then shower and fold the sugar without stirring away the lift.
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Gumming
Warm milk-and-sugar gommage, brushed over petits gâteaux the moment they leave the oven, gives a fine gloss and delicate sweet skin. The brushwork matters more than any pastry-shop supply.
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Paste for Small Gummed Tea-cakes
Pâte pour petits gâteaux gommés is the disciplined little paste behind crisp, clean shapes: real butter, four yolks, orange-flower water, two thin rollings, and one necessary cold rest.
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Bouchée or Small-patty Crusts
Bouchées rise from a single thick round of puff pastry, gilded and scored for a lid, then cleared while hot into crisp, butter-gold cases ready for the dinner table.
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Puff-paste Trimmings or Half Puff-paste
Rognures become useful demi-feuilletage when kept cold and handled lightly: enough buttered layers for crisp tartlets, Barquettes (No. 314), and Croûtons, though never the proud, even climb of untouched puff paste.
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Vol-au-Vent Crust
Croûte de vol-au-vent rises on clean, slanted cuts and disciplined handling: a butter-gold puff-pastry case with a removable lid, ready to carry a generous savory filling to the table.
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Puff-paste
Feuilletage is the pastry lesson in matching textures: equal weights of flour and butter, six measured turns, and cool rests that keep hundreds of layers distinct enough to rise crisp and butter-gold.
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Ordinary Short Paste
Pâte brisée ordinaire turns four plain ingredients into a calm, workable pie paste: soften the butter, knead exactly twice, then let time take away the spring before you roll.
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The Kneading of Pastes
Fraisage turns a rough mixed paste smooth with two passes of the palm, no more. Learn the pressure, stop before elasticity, and your pies begin with tenderness instead of toil.
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Dressing Paste (Pâte à Pâté)
Pâte à pâté is a wall before it is a crust: firm, lightly buttered, and kneaded just enough to stand around forcemeat. Master its consistency and every raised pie begins on sound foundations.
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Dressing Paste with Lard
Pâte à pâté au saindoux makes the firm, supple wall a tall raised pie needs: lard for strength, tepid water for workability, and exactly two brief fraisages before a cool rest.
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The Lining and Covering of Raised and Dressed Pies
Build a pâté dressé from the inside out: a half-inch skullcap liner, a sealed inner lid, and a gilded crown of pâte feuilletée or overlapping leaves, all protected by one open vent.
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Timbale Crust
A burnished croûte de timbale rises from one mould with patterned sides, a pinched crest, and a leafed lid, teaching the quiet pastry architecture that keeps a hollow shell whole and crisp.
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Croûtes et Croustades
Croûtes et croustades teach the discipline of blind baking: buttered moulds, short paste rolled five millimetres thick, and enough lentils to hold every base flat before the shells are dried or gilded.
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Dry Sugared Paste for Various Purposes
Pâte sucrée teaches the discipline of brief mixing and a hard chill: butter-rich pastry scented with orange-flower water, tender enough for a tart and sturdy enough once patched.
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Galette Paste
Pâte à galette proves that tenderness comes from restraint: butter at half the flour's weight, a full cool rest, and three measured turns that build fine layers without making the dough elastic.
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Flawn Crust
Croûte de flan teaches the discipline behind every crisp filled tart: roll evenly, fit without stretching, weight completely, then dry the shell until fruit has nowhere damp to hide.
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Fine, Short or Flawn Paste (For Fruit Tarts)
Pâte à foncer fine begins with butter, egg, cold water, sugar, and salt, then takes its flour last. Two brief fraisages make a tender, clean-rolling fruit-tart crust without waking too much gluten.
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Essences and Flavourings
French pastry flavour begins with extraction, not a heavy hand: vanilla infused gently, citrus zest rubbed fresh, bought essences measured by drops, and fruit juice joined to its matching liqueur.
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Gilding Preparation
La dorure is a thin, even coat of beaten egg, brushed without puddles so pastry bakes to a clear gold; a few drops of water keep a fierce oven from taking it too dark.
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Vanilla Sugar
Sucre vanillé turns spent vanilla pods into a fine, fragrant pantry sugar through complete drying, a strict two-to-one sugar ratio, and repeated sifting. Waste nothing, keep every bit of perfume.
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Apple Jelly for Decorating
Gelée de pommes turns russets, water, sugar, and a few drops of carmine into a limpid rosy jelly, firm enough to hold a decoration and clear enough to catch the light.
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Currants and Sultanas
A flour dredge, a towel closed like a purse, and a vigorous sieve turn sticky currants and sultanas into clean pantry fruit, with every currant checked for the stone that does not belong.
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Various Butters
Three states, one lesson: control butter’s water and texture before it meets the pastry, then soften, work to pommade, or clarify according to the job it must do.
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