What is puff pastry? What is puff pastry made from?
What is puff pastry? What is puff pastry made from?Puff pastry is like a pie crust that rises high with no leaveningAnswer: The key to using puff pastry is knowing what it is and how it works. There are four main ingredients in puff pastry: flour, butter, salt, and water. There is no leavener. So what makes it rise up so high and makes it so airy? It is the way these ingredients are combined that causes the reaction. The dough begins like pie crust with cold butter mixed into the flour to a cornmeal consistency. Once it comes together is when the true labor begins. The dough is rolled around a thick slab of butter. Through a process of folding, turning, and rolling, the butter is dispersed throughout the dough creating hundreds of very thin layers of dough separated by a film of butter. The butter layer is what causes the rise. When the pastry is heated, the butter melts and boils, creating steam which lift
