Pastry is a key type of baked confectionery made from ingredients like flour, sugar, and eggs, including dishes such as pies, tarts, and quiches. The document provides examples of special pastries, including recipes for banket and knafeh, detailing their ingredients and preparation procedures. Each recipe includes specific steps for preparation and cooking to achieve the final product.

1. Pastries
Lexter Ivan S. Cortez

2. What is Pastry?
• Pastry is a major type of bakers' confectionery. It includes many of the
various kinds of baked products made from ingredients such
as flour, sugar, milk, butter, shortening, baking powder, and eggs.
Small tarts and other sweet baked products are called pastries. Common
pastry dishes include pies, tarts, quiches and pasties.

3. Special Pastries

4. Special Pastry
Examples:
Apple Strudel, Banket, Curry puff, Kanafeh,
Muskazine (Austria), Pionono (Spain,Philippines), Puff Pastry
(Europe), Semia (Sweden), Utap/Otap (Philippines),
Yurla (Tibet)

5. Example of
Special Pastry
and its recipe

6. Banket

7. Ingredients:
2cups all-purpose flour 1cup butter, cold
1⁄2cup cold water 1 1⁄2cups almond paste
2eggs 3⁄4cup white sugar
1pinch salt 1⁄4teaspoon almond extract
1egg white, beaten sugar, for top

8. Procedure:
a. In large bowl, cut cold butter into flour until the mixture has a crumb-like texture. Make a
well in the center, add cold water. Mix together until the mixture forms a ball. Don't overmix!
Chill dough.
b. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Grease cookie sheets (2).
c. In a medium bowl, blend together almond paste, eggs, sugar, almond extract and salt.
d. Divide dough in 4 parts, and roll into 15" strips. Place filling along the center of each long
strip of dough. Roll up, and pinch the ends to seal.
e. Place strips 2" apart on cookie sheets. Brush with egg white, and sprinkle with sugar.
f. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
g. Cut into slices when cooled a little, and enjoy!

9. Knafeh

10. Ingredients:
1lb shredded phyllo dough 2lbs sweet cheese
1 -1 1⁄2cup rendered butter 1⁄2cup sugar
1tablespoon orange blossom water 1⁄4cup pine nuts
1teaspoon knafeh food coloring 1⁄4cup pistachios,
chopped
2cups thin syrup (attar)

11. Procedure:
• Mix cheese, sugar, and orange blossom water together.
• Chop knafeh dough with a sharp knife. Mix with 1 3/4 cups hot butter over low fire for 15
minutes, or until dough absorbs all the butter.
• Mix 1/4 cup butter, knafeh coloring, and spread in a 17x12 inch pan. Sprinkle pine nuts
evenly.
• Spread 2/3 of the dough in the pan over the nuts and press well. Spread the cheese mixture
over dough evenly. Cover with the rest of the dough and press well.
• Bake at 400 degrees in a preheated oven for 30 minutes. (Place on lower rack).
• Add thin attar. Flip the tray over in another tray of the same size. Return to the oven and
bake for 10 more minutes.
• Garnish with pistachios and serve hot!

12. Thank you folks!