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pâte brisée

/pat bʁi.ze/

pâte brisée noun: a form of shortcrust pastry made with butter instead of lard or shortening.

pâte brisée: a form of shortcrust pastry made with butter instead of lard or shortening
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Noun

pâte brisée (uncountable)

  1. A form of shortcrust pastry made with butter instead of lard or shortening.
    • Pâte brisée is the French version of pie pastry, made in traditional European style directly on the work surface with the dry ingredients spread in a well or “fountain” to enclose the fat (usually butter), egg yolks and water. The name means broken dough, because the ingredients are “broken” into...1989, Anne Willan, La Varenne Pratique: Part 4, Baking, Preserving & Desserts, BookBaby, →ISBN
    • Because pastry is such a dynamic field, and many like to make their own variations, formulas tend to vary significantly from source to source, and pâte brisée is a good example of this tendency. Some varieties may use bread flour, others pastry flour. Some may contain sugar, others not. However...2008, Michel Suas, Advanced Bread and Pastry, Cengage Learning, →ISBN

Examples of pâte brisée in a sentence

  • Pâte brisée is rolled more thinly than pie pastry, to about 1⁄8 in/3 mm thick.1989, Anne Willan, La Varenne Pratique: Part 4, Baking, Preserving & Desserts, BookBaby, →ISBN:
  • Because pastry is such a dynamic field, and many like to make their own variations, formulas tend to vary significantly from source to source, and pâte brisée is a good example of this tendency.2008, Michel Suas, Advanced Bread and Pastry, Cengage Learning, →ISBN:

Origin of pâte brisée

Borrowed from French pâte brisée (literally “broken dough”).

Questions about pâte brisée

What does pâte brisée mean?
Pâte brisée means a form of shortcrust pastry made with butter instead of lard or shortening.
How do you use pâte brisée in a sentence?
Pâte brisée is rolled more thinly than pie pastry, to about 1⁄8 in/3 mm thick.
What part of speech is pâte brisée?
Pâte brisée is a noun.
How do you pronounce pâte brisée?
Pâte brisée is pronounced /pat bʁi.ze/.

Words near pâte brisée in the dictionary

  1. Pârscov
  2. Pârteștii de Jos
  3. Pârâul Mare
  4. Pârâul Mic
  5. Pârâul Negru
  6. pâte brisée
  7. pâte de verre
  8. pâte fermentée
  9. pâte feuilletée
  10. pâte-sur-pâte
  11. pâtisserie

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