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Danish pastries

Danish pastries is the plural of Danish pastry.

Meaning of Danish pastry

Noun

Danish pastry (plural Danish pastries)

  1. A sweet and flaky yeast-raised roll made from a dough using butter or margarine and filled with remonce (butter and sugar) or custard.
    • Danish pastries are made in essentially the same way as croissants. The initial dough is moister and softer, includes sugar and also whole eggs, so it's sweeter, richer, and distinctively yellow, and it isn't given an initial rising.2004, Harold McGee, chapter 10, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    Danish

Questions about Danish pastries

What is Danish pastries the plural of?
Danish pastries is the plural of Danish pastry.

Words near Danish pastries in the dictionary

  1. Danish Hound
  2. Danish Hounds
  3. Danish longball
  4. Danish oil
  5. Danish oils
  6. Danish pastries
  7. Danish pastry
  8. Danish Red
  9. Danish Reds
  10. Danish seine
  11. Danish Sign Language

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