What's the difference between pastry and shortening?

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.

Shortening


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shorten
  • (n.) The act of making or becoming short or shorter.
  • (n.) That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
  • (2) Hearing loss at 8 kHz would shorten the I-V interval, while a loss at 4 kHz would be expected to lengthen the interval.
  • (3) Both systems indicated that the Kupffer cell modified endotoxin by enriching the lipid content of the molecule and shortening the length of the O-antigen.
  • (4) Platelet survival time in patients with Crohn's disease proved to be significantly shortened (p less than 0.001), whereas platelet turnover appeared augmented.
  • (5) Shorten said any arrangement needed to be consistent with international obligations, with asylum seekers afforded due process and their claims properly assessed.
  • (6) Rapid, on-site detection of chlamydial antigen in male FVU would shorten the infectious period by hastening diagnosis and treatment.
  • (7) Isometric exercise induces a significant shortening of both intervals although minor for QT so that the ratio significantly increases in comparison to baseline (p less than .001).
  • (8) Light-induced cone shortening provides a useful model for stuying nonmuscle contraction because it is linear, slow, and repetitive.
  • (9) In the V fibers, APD was lengthened by F, Q, and B, and shortened by L and M. The drug-induced changes in the relation between APD and CL were as in the P fibers.
  • (10) The CL was also longer in the duodenum, whereas the CD was shortened, indicating a reduction of the wave movements from the stomach antrum to the duodenum in the ranitidine periods.
  • (11) Chloride caused a significant concentration-dependent shortening of myosin rods due to destabilization of the alpha-helical double coiled rod structure.
  • (12) Strong correlations were found also between postsystolic shortening and thickening measured immediately before reperfusion and systolic shortening and thickening measured after recovery at 2-3 weeks (r = 0.73, n = 28; p less than 0.001 for shortening; r = 0.79, n = 12; p less than 0.01 for thickening).
  • (13) Slight but significant shortening of the latency of initial positivity in the evoked potential was observed after rearing in the enriched condition as compared to the data obtained from the littermates that were reared in the standard or impoverished conditions.
  • (14) When using pair stimula, barbamil shortens the period of absolute nonexcitation and the second phase of depression in the cycle of restituted H-reflexes to the second stimula in the pair.
  • (15) Accordingly, RV systolic SL shortening did not rise despite the substantial augmentation in RV outflow.
  • (16) Chloroquine administration shortened the time taken to reach peak plasma paracetamol concentration (tmax) in five of the volunteers.
  • (17) The survival time of the lambs was markedly shortened with the bubble oxygenator, although much longer than had been anticipated.
  • (18) An algorithm for the treatment of cryptococcosis complicating AIDS may shorten the duration of primary intravenous AB therapy.
  • (19) VT returned to control levels, expiratory time shortened, and breathing frequency increased.
  • (20) Isotonically, peak muscle shortening was reduced in the left muscle, whereas time to peak shortening was prolonged in the right myocardium.