What's the difference between eclair and pastry?

Eclair


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of frosted cake, containing flavored cream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The HTC Legend, which runs the latest Android software called Eclair, is made from a single block of aluminium and has a very bright and clear 3.2 inch AMOLED (ultra-bright LED) display.
  • (2) His light touch with pastry and flair for eclairs – always baked with a signature pencil perched behind his ear – have won over the hearts and tastebuds of the Great British Bake Off judges.
  • (3) Photograph: Antonio Zazueta Olmos I have a weakness for chocolate eclairs that means I'm often to be found sitting outside Maison Bertaux trying to perfect eating one without dropping cream all down my front while doing a spot of people watching.
  • (4) It started with Android 1.5 “Cupcake”, and continued through the alphabet via Android 1.6 “Donut”, Android 2.0 “Eclair”, Android 2.2 “Froyo” (frozen yoghurt), Android 2.3 “Gingerbread”, Android 3.0 “Honeycomb”, Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” and most recently Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean”.
  • (5) Every year produces a new crop of women standups who will take the world by storm, and when the froth subsides very few names persist: Jenny Eclair, Jo Brand, Victoria Wood.
  • (6) The QCs were each awarded £50,000 in court making the chocolate eclair arguably the most expensive in culinary history.
  • (7) to make eclairs that are sturdy enough to hold the weight of a further tier of iced eclairs?
  • (8) Trademarks: The pencil behind his ear and often a somewhat home-hewn method of display: see week 7 ’s “eclair stair”.
  • (9) Written on stone: Eclair Bandersnatch, an SF native street artist, standing above one of her stencils.
  • (10) And judging took about half an hour on every act, and every judge had been put on the show to be me: it was who could be ruder?” No brush off for Bake Off During his keynote at the conference , Cowell had seemed to take a jab at another show: Great British Bake Off, telling the audience: “My belief is it’s more exciting to see someone like Leona Lewis win and sing a fantastic song, than looking at a chocolate eclair at the end of the show.” He’s keen to clarify that remark: he says he wasn’t picking on Bake Off specifically, but competitive cookery shows in general.
  • (11) So many creative types have relocated to Oakland that Oakland's mayor, Jean Quan, recently likened the city to Brooklyn (San Francisco was Manhattan); San Francisco-based street artist Eclair Bandersnatch, whose stencil portrait of Edward Snowden recently featured in the Guardian , says so many of her friends have moved away that she feels like an anomaly.
  • (12) "No sugar, salt, red meat, doughnuts, ice cream, chocolate eclairs, cherry crumbles, blueberry truffles.
  • (13) Previous winners include Steve Coogan, The League of Gentlemen, Lee Evans and Jenny Eclair.
  • (14) A previous TV campaign with comedian Jenny Eclair will re-edited alongside new images of offending salty foods – she warned everyday foods are "Full of it".
  • (15) Christie's victory is only the third for a solo woman standup, after Jenny Eclair in 1995 and Laura Solon in 2005.
  • (16) Sales of its premium Waitrose 1 range, which includes specialities such as Sicilian lemon meringue eclairs, rose more than 21%.
  • (17) Will prison governor Paul Jagger underbake his eclairs, causing them to be soft, and bend – “which would be ghastly”, in Mary’s words?
  • (18) For each of those categories the judging panel – which included Gransnet editor Geraldine Bedell, standup comedian Jenny Eclair and the editor of Good Housekeeping, Lindsay Nicholson – chose their favourites.
  • (19) Here were people like Dynamite Garland from Cleveland who eventually found work in a bakery and lived off eclairs that slipped onto the floor (''roaches all over the floor, big roaches'').
  • (20) I made eclairs, profiteroles, mousses, croissants, tarts and ice-cream.

Pastry


Definition:

  • (n.) The place where pastry is made.
  • (n.) Articles of food made of paste, or having a crust made of paste, as pies, tarts, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Donors ate a typical Israeli breakfast of salad, cheese, yoghurt and pastries.
  • (2) Place on a large baking tray and fold over the edges to give a 1cm pastry border.
  • (3) Filo pastry contains very little fat itself but relies on fat being added later in between incredibly fine sheets, allowing them to separate during cooking, and so shatter in the mouth into fine delicate shards.
  • (4) 3 Once chilled, line the pastry with crumpled baking parchment and then with baking beans or dried pulses and bake blind for 15 mins.
  • (5) Gently fold the pastry surrounding the tin base inwards so it is on the base.
  • (6) BBQ Champ, which will be hosted by Adam Richman, the American presenter of cult TV hit Man V Food, will feature Bake Off-style challenges but swaps pastries and cupcakes for burgers and kebabs.
  • (7) What I enjoy doing is teaching people how to make pastry, and it really is easy, so I would like to share some of what I know,” she said.
  • (8) The recipe below is for 10 classic shortcrust pastry tarts but it can easily be modified.
  • (9) There is a big choice of salads at lunch and brunch is served at the weekend, but the best plan is to enjoy afternoon tea – with a dozen different brews to choose from, accompanied by freshly-baked pastries.
  • (10) This handling range is particularly important for laminated pastries, such as filo, which require layers of solid fat.
  • (11) 8.47pm BST Frances is wrapping little pastry horns around tiny steel cones.
  • (12) This air then expands on heating, giving height to your pastry.
  • (13) His light touch with pastry and flair for eclairs – always baked with a signature pencil perched behind his ear – have won over the hearts and tastebuds of the Great British Bake Off judges.
  • (14) 6 Pour the custard mix into the pastry case, then grate the nutmeg on top (do not use ready-ground nutmeg).
  • (15) During the last feast, Mustafa generously took the time to prepare over 30 plates of pastries for his fellow detainees.
  • (16) On paper, the main difference between puff and shortcrust pastry appears to be the fat content.
  • (17) Roll out the pastry thinly, and line the prepared tin with it.
  • (18) Line the tin with the pastry, pressing into the fluted edges of the tin.
  • (19) Feed consumed by rats fed with the corresponding commercial pastries was low except in date bars group.
  • (20) He was once an extravagant cook, a person who made pastry and boeuf bourguignon.

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