pouf paste
- noun
- Archaic
:
pasta choux
- The chef filled the crisp pouf paste shells with a creamy chicken mixture.
Examples
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You need to pipe the pouf paste onto a baking sheet before cooking.
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Traditional recipes for éclairs often call for pouf paste as the base.
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The chef prepared a delicious pouf paste for the pastries.
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Can you show me how to make pouf paste?
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The chef filled the crisp pouf paste shells with a creamy chicken mixture.
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Traditional recipes for éclairs often call for pouf paste as the base.
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To make delicious cream puffs, start by mixing the pouf paste ingredients thoroughly.
Synonyms
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A light dough used to make desserts like éclairs and cream puffs
A smooth mixture of flour and eggs that rises into light hollow shells for sweet or savory fillings
A light dough used to make hollow pastry shells like éclairs and cream puffs
Surface Forms
Morphology
pouf + paste
The first element 'pouf' is not a recognizable English culinary morpheme (dictionary entry absent) and does not transparently signal a light, hollow pastry; 'paste' only indicates a dough-like mixture. Because the crucial lexical cue is missing or ambiguous (and may be confused with unrelated senses or orthographic variants like 'puff'), a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would not reliably derive the specialized meaning.
Etymology
Pouf paste may come from the image of a soft dough that puffs up in the oven: pouf suggests a puff and paste means a soft dough. When baked, the batter puffs into hollow, crisp shells you can fill, so the name explains why it means a 'light batter' for hollow pastry cases.