Puff Pastry

Foods which are made with puff pastry include turnovers, pies, tartlets, sausage rolls, wellingtons, strudels and many other sweet and savoury dishes. The pie and beef wellington are traditional English dishes, reason why puff pastry is so popular within the UK. Sweet products such as apple strudels and apple turnovers are also very popular as they are available to buy premade from many supermarkets and cafes. In other countries, such as France, the pastry is used to make the traditional croissant. These are often enjoyed with a coffee or hot chocolate, being consumed usually at breakfast time or as a brunch. A croissant makes up part of a traditional continental breakfast.

Puff pastry is one of the most popular and enjoyed of the pastries is very similar to filo pastry, and it originates from the Middle East, where it is still used extensively. The true history of this pastry is blurred as the Middle East, Spain and France all claim to hold the original recipe. A French painter and cook Claude Gelee from the 1600s produced a sticky bread made from puff pastry intended for his sick father to enjoy. Puff pastry is light and flaky andis typically used for both sweet and savoury products throughout the entire World. Different countries tend to sway towards either using the pastry for sweet or savoury foods. 

Puff pastry is popular with many people as it can be bought ready made in a dough form from many supermarkets, the dough is normally frozen and can then be defrosted and used whenever the person likes. Given that making puff pastry involves a lot of rolling out many people find it easier to buy it