What's the difference between pastry and puff?

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.

Puff


Definition:

  • (n.) A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff.
  • (n.) Anything light and filled with air.
  • (n.) A puffball.
  • (n.) a kind of light pastry.
  • (n.) A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.
  • (n.) An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal.
  • (n.) To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs.
  • (n.) To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at.
  • (n.) To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion.
  • (n.) To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
  • (n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
  • (v. t.) To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
  • (v. t.) To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
  • (v. t.) To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air.
  • (v. t.) To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like; -- often with up.
  • (v. t.) To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
  • (a.) Puffed up; vain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 68C intermolt puff of Drosophila melanogaster contains a cluster of three glue protein genes, Sgs-3, Sgs-7, and Sgs-8.
  • (2) The results indicated that smoke, as opposed to sham puffs, significantly reduced reports of cigarette craving, and local anesthesia significantly blocked this immediate reduction in craving produced by smoke inhalation.
  • (3) Neurons in deprived puffs and interpuffs were generally similar in size to those in nondeprived regions, although CO-reactive cells were significantly smaller in the deprived puffs of monkeys enucleated for 28.5 or 60 wks.
  • (4) In regions without temperature-induced puffs RNA synthesis and its transport are apparently delayed under influence of heat shock.
  • (5) Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver is amusing himself by trying to take a puff of a cigar in his saddle.
  • (6) However, in a double-cue conditioning paradigm in which both command words were presented alone on different trials and reinforced, response latency was longer and puff attenuation poorer among Vs than when the UCS was signaled by a unique cue.
  • (7) These two puffs are located at the end of the E12 inversion.
  • (8) The results that while in the control T3L and T2L nuclei (22 degrees C), the 93D puff shows a higher level of transcriptional activity than in the Oregon R+ or compound stocks used as controls, in T3L and T2L nuclei from heat-shocked sets (37 degrees C), 93D does not show further induction compared with heat-shocked controls, and the 87C puff is 2.8 times more active than the 87A puff.
  • (9) A previously described smoking apparatus (20) was used for measurement of puff volume and inhaled tar.
  • (10) Similar to area 17, more GABA- and glycine-labeled neurons were observed within the puff regions than in nonpuff regions.
  • (11) He added: "Why on earth is this useless Goverment pandering to Puffs?
  • (12) Male volunteers for mass radiography examination, aged 40 or more, were questioned about their sputum production, smoking habits, and, when applicable, their method of smoking cigarettes.Of 5,438 cigarette smokers 460 (8.4%) smoked their cigarettes without removing the cigarette from the mouth between puffs ("drooping" cigarette smokers) whereas the rest smoked in the normal manner.Persons who admitted to producing sputum from their chests on most days of the year or on most days for at least three months of the year for a minimum of two years were classified as chronic bronchitics in the absence of other causative disease.The rate of chronic bronchitis among the "drooping" cigarette smokers (41.5%) was considerably greater than that among those smoking cigarettes in the normal manner (33.6%).
  • (13) In experiment 3, average puff volumes and CO boosts were examined during smoking periods with short (3, 10, and 30 minutes) deprivation intervals.
  • (14) The home side lost Raheem Sterling, who injured a groin in a challenge with Juan Mata, and even when they pinned back their opponents for periods of the second half it was a lot of huff and puff without too much guile.
  • (15) These data support previous suggestions indicating a substantial contribution of transcriptional products from small puffs and interbands to the whole transcriptional system of polytene chromosomes.
  • (16) The number of NPY-containing neurons in the puffs is substantially less than that expected in an equal volume of the interpuffs (X2 = 13.86; df = 1; P less than 0.001).
  • (17) The rearing of insects at a temperature of 29 degrees resulted in puff changes: the activity of some puffs increased or depressed, some puffs were inhibited, other puffs were induced newly.
  • (18) The CO yields were found to increase with puff volume and tobacco moisture, decrease with increased paper porosity, but remain essentially constant with puff duration.
  • (19) T he Japanese have a saying”, said Willi Hartenstein, pausing for a reflective puff on a cheroot.
  • (20) Dosage for an acute attack in children is 1 puff (200 micrograms), repeated within 5 minutes if necessary; in adults 1-3 puffs can be given.