Author: joepastry

Busted.

Some wise guy (actually gal) has already pointed out that hot cross buns are not a pastry per se. Alright yes, Miss Know-It-All, you’re technically right. The textbook definition of a pastry is a sweet or savory that uses unleavened dough, like puff pastry, tart crust, strudel dough and the like, as a base. That’s […]

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When Foodie Turns on Foodie

I have to confess I chose this week’s recipes, in part, because they were funny. Not the recipes themselves exactly, but the foodie-on-foodie conflicts they apparently inspired. These days you see, every consumer web site wants to be “interactive”. They want to be down with their peeps. Or at least want their peeps to believe […]

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For the Week of March 6, 2006

What with Easter coming on, I think it’s time we made ourselves some devotional pastry. And anyway, I haven’t eaten these since I was a kid: Hot Cross Buns Also, as promised, I’m switching up bread projects for the first time in the short history of Joe Pastry. I hope you’ve been setting aside a […]

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The Hole in the Doughnut

A couple of readers have complained that there’s been something missing this week, namely some more in-depth scribbling on the history of doughnuts. The reason I didn’t get into it is because I don’t consider jelly doughnuts to be true doughnuts, despite the name. True doughnuts have holes. Once I’ve slimmed down a little (see […]

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Mission Accomplished

Between all the bread, the little crabs, and the many jelly doughnuts, I put on three pounds this week. Crikey! But then I guess that’s why they call it Fat Tuesday. Thank goodness we’re headed into Lent, where I’ve got religious cover to say no to pie.

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Sweet Home Chicago V

Last week’s biscuit crust disaster humbled me, so this week we’re returning to the tried and true in world of pizza…yeast. Careful attention to the recipe will reveal that I’ve cut down the proportions to fit a 10″ or 11″ springform or tart pan. The reason is simply that my big old standard 14″ Chicago […]

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Fat Tuesday = Doughnut Oblivion

It’s not entirely coincidental that I’m making jelly doughnuts the day before Lent begins. It’s Fat Tuesday after all, also known as Pączki (pronounced PONCH-kee) Day back home in Chicago (and, so I’m told, Detroit). That’s the day that Chicagoans of every stripe dive head-first into a dozen box of, you guessed it, pączki, the […]

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Crab Update

My wife told me a Cuban woman at the event came up to her with a pastry and said “We also have little pies like this in our country, we call them cangrejitos!” Swoosh!

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Crabs!

My hundred little cangrejitos just left the kitchen on the way to the Afro-Cuban art thingamajig. I hope there’ll be some actual Cubans there who’ll be able to tell me if I got close or not. All those who’ve been following the blog the last few days may remember that cangejitos are these things, little […]

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