Pastries, sans the literature

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:41 pm

What good pastries have you had recently?

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:13 pm

It's been a slow month for pastries, I'm sad to report. I had a good strawberry thing down at a Portuguese bakery, but it was only three out of a possible five stars!

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:32 pm

I had a couple of those pilsbury cinnamon buns last night.
They were pretty good, warm and sweet, but nothing terribly special.

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:13 pm

Do bagels count?

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:14 pm

Do you like medialunas (half moons)?

They are actually crecent moons, to be precise. They are little croissants covered with candy from Morocco/Spain.

A hot medialuna with grilled cheese is always good.

Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 85 Location: Ypsilanti, MI

The Famous Mr. Klaw wrote:

Do bagels count?

I was wondering this too. What, precisely, is a pastry? One moment...

The OED wrote:

1. a. The collective term for articles of food made of paste (see PASTE n. 1), or of which paste forms an essential part; now only applied to such articles when baked, as pies, tarts, etc.

Therefore, the question becomes, "are bagels made of baked paste?"

And the answer becomes, "I don't know," or "I wot not".

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:30 pm

I think Bagels are more dough than paste.

More like a bread.

Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 85 Location: Ypsilanti, MI

Ah, but...for the definition of paste:

The OED wrote:

1. Cookery. a. Flour moistened with water or milk and kneaded, dough; esp. (now only) with addition of butter, lard, suet, or the like, as used in making pastry, etc.

And under dough, we find:

The OED wrote:

1. a. A mass consisting of flour or meal moistened and kneaded into a paste, with or without leaven, ready to be baked into bread, etc.; kneaded flour; paste of bread.

The plot thickens!

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 11:54 pm

Um, my English teacher lost a bet and is bringing us donuts tomorrow, so I shall be able to report then?

Or is that bringing literature in to the discussion too much (The Importance of Being Earnest will probably be discussed while eating the donuts).

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 11:56 pm

Wot wrote:

The plot thickens!

Okay, that was just bad. Razz

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:00 am

170 wrote:

Um, my English teacher lost a bet and is bringing us donuts tomorrow, so I shall be able to report then?

Or is that bringing literature in to the discussion too much (The Importance of Being Earnest will probably be discussed while eating the donuts).

As long as you eat them earnestly.

Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 528 Location: California

I had a standard glazed Krispy Kreme doughnaught with some coffee and a cigarillo just recently. It was a terrible donut.

Also, consistency in spelling: What's that all about?!

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:57 am

This one time? I got a loaf of "wheat french bread", but it was made with the sort of pastry flour used to make donuts and stuff. I managed to eat it all, but I was not a fan, and it was NOT French Bread by any stretch.

Rating: Chauncey

of 5

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 2:05 am

I have a PASTRY DISASTER! to report. It all starts with a magical little thing called the Ala Carte Line! The Ala Carte Line! Is this crazy little cart at our school that sells various forms of sugar and salt. So one day I'm craving powdered donut form sugar real bad so, after getting sent to the back of the line for not having my stupid card,I slap my 25 cents down on the counter and mosey on back to my table. The first bite reveals a moderatley bad donut but the second reveals something far worse than anything I could've ever imagined. The donut was soggy! It was freakin' soggy! Not damp, soggy! So, naturally, I am outraged and go up to the line demanding my money back. The decrepid(sp?) old lady out the counter refuses to acknowledge any sog in my donuts and starts calling me Eli (which is relatively strange since my name is Isaac) ANTICLIMACTIC END OF STORY!

Also we have way more (2) posts than the literature thread, WHICH ROCKS!

Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 2966 Location: Atlanta

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You see where this is goin', right?
Sorry... I couldn't resist.

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 3:28 am

It's Purim and i'm eating Mann's Ears like it's 1995.

Also: Mann's Ears are probably not what they're called in English! It's a literal translation and will probably make it look like i'm involved with that chick who did the Magnolia soundtrack romantically?

WHICH I AM.

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 4:19 am

Isn't he called Hamman? *Tantrums on the floor*

SHOULDN'T YOU BE FESTING?!

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Pastries are fattening and might clog my young arteries, so I avoid them. But I do enjoy typing the word "pastries".

Pastries.

Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 13 Location: post-location

Eh, I'm really more into tortes.

"They stand in the way of love and we will smote them all"

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:05 am

I suppose he might be called Hamann abroad. The "Ha" just means "The", so it seems pretty silly to add it.

In other news: I can't pass through the door because they're SOOOO GOOOOD.

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 9:30 am

full support for this thread

I just ate some cereal and I liked it thank you

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 9:34 am

I am going to count perogi as pastries, because I had some awesome perogi from a farmer's market last weekend. Potato-cheese, sauerkraut, and pepper. (That's three different kinds.) I also had some super great sundried tomato-roasted garlic ravioli from the same place, but I don't want to push things too much.

Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 193 Location: the Axis of Rad

I had a couple of lovely lemon-poppyseed muffins the other night. I may fail my next drug test, but I do not care because they were delicious.

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:26 pm

I am eating a croissant RIGHT NOW.

It is flaky and delicious.

It is also raining.

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:28 pm

your croissant is raining?

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 1:45 pm

Raining with deliciousness.

I am sad that I have finished it.

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 2:02 pm

I REALLY thought he was called Hamman! They don't call him Hajashverosh! Wait... they do... Ehhh...

Pastries! I'm festing! No pastries for me!

Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 64

I was just asked through the grapevine to become an apprentice pastrie chef at a local cafe!

I didn't apply for it... I was recruited. It's pretty sweet.

I only just heard about the offer, so I'm going to have to go there soon and see what's up. I don't actually have the "job" yet or anything. So I guess it's just potentially pretty sweet. But still!

Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 710

I had some cinnamon buns a while back. 12.2341/5 stars, because I love cinnamon buns!

I ate some English muffins just this dinner time, actually. 4/5 stars.

Can't remember what other pastries I've had this month. 1/5.
The fact that I ate a lot of pastries this month. 5/5!

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:12 pm

This reminds me that I need to start finding my friend in Pastry Arts after his class in the afternoon again. . . I could use some fresh-made pastry yummies, and he never fails to deliver.