What is National Pastry Day?
National Pastry Day in the United States honors one of the world's most popular baked goods. On December 9th, visit your local bakery and pick up one or two of your favorite items.
The pastry is a term used to describe a wide variety of baked goods that are made with ingredients such as flour, sugar, milk, butter, shortening, baking powder, and eggs. Pastry dough is thinly rolled out and then used as a base for many baked goods. Pies, tarts, quiches, and pasties are just a few of the more popular bakery items. Bakers bake both savory and sweet dishes from the doughs they make. In addition, they continue to produce new and delicious creations all the time.
- Pastries can be traced back to the ancient Mediterranean, where they had almost paper-thin, multilayered baklava, and Phyllo dough
- After the Crusaders brought it back from the Mediterranean, Pastry-making in Northern Europe began
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