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"DavidW" > wrote in message
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> Pico Rico wrote:
>> "DavidW" > wrote in message
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>>> I've only had it once, at a restaurant a year or two ago. I was
>>> really looking forward to it but disappointed when I found that the
>>> shell was bread-like rather than puff pastry. I'm sure it would have
>>> been better with puff pastry. Why mess with a classic?
>>>

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>> I have only made it with puff pastry - why is that so difficult?

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> I don't know if it was difficult or they just chose to cook their own
> variation. Puff pastry is time consuming, though, so they might have used
> a simpler dough for cost reasons.
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it is not time consuming to BUY the puff pastry.