pastry

Dough or paste consisting primarily of flour, water, and shortening that is baked and often used as a crust for foods such as pies and tarts.

Baked sweet foods made with pastry.

One of these baked foods.

A place where pies, tarts, etc., are made.

Viands made of paste, or of which paste constitutes a principal ingredient; particularly, the crust or cover of a pie, tart, or the like.

The place where pastry is made.

Articles of food made of paste, or having a crust made of paste, as pies, tarts, etc.

one whose occupation is to make pastry.

A baked food group which contains items made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, Napoleons, puff pastries, etc.