On Sep 2, 5:31*am, Dave Smith > wrote:
> On 01/09/2012 12:11 PM, z z wrote:
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> > What do you know about puff pastry? Do you buy it? Do you make it
> > yourself? How often in a year do you use it?
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> > Expensive item-Aldi's once around Christmas time sold an off brand very
> > cheap. Buy up and freeze when you can get a good price.
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> > Usually I simply (lazily) slice it into small rectangles, spread with
> > lemon curd, and bake.
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> > Have you ever seen those 3inch high pastry pillows? Do they call them
> > Neopolitans? I am guessing they stacked multiple layers of sheets
> > together before baking?
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> > I have a love for cream horns. You know, every grocery store sells them
> > in a plastic wrapped package of 4 filled with a godawful Twinkie filling
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> I have posted before about pattie shells, which seem not to be available
> in the US, but they are rounds of puff pastry with the tops cut out. We
> can get them *frozen and bake them to be served hot out of the oven.
> They are great with creamed salmon or chicken. *Any leftovers can be
> filled with ice cream and drizzled with *chocolate sauce or a fruit topping.

They are available in the US...I think Pepperridge Farms makes them.