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Old 06-07-2008, 11:38 AM   #6
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I have a hard time calling anything made with bread flour a pastry, eg, bagels, pretzels, and bread. While I love them long time, I see them as non pastry items. Pastry has an implication of a different texture, leavened with fat of some type. Croissants, while they have yeast and are made with bread dough, I'd consider a pastry mainly because of the flaky-ness and the butter.

I'm sure there is a specific definition, I'm just stating my conceptions.

In any event They are all good, and I chose pretty much everything but funnel cakes and their ilk.

http://www.answers.com/topic/pastry scroll down to the fourth or fifth entry for a mouth watering discussion on the definition of pastry
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