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dresser à la poche

English translation: pipe using a pastry bag


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French term or phrase:dresser à la poche
English translation:pipe using a pastry bag
Entered by: Daniel Weston
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04:10 Oct 23, 2011
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Cooking / Culinary
French term or phrase: dresser à la poche
This is from a recipe that uses a pastry bag that contains a paste. There are other translations in the document that use the word "pipe" for "dresser" but they also use other words as well. I'm not really sure that the word "pipe" fits this recipe - it's not for a decoration, but for filling a long, rectangular cake pan. I think "squeeze" woud work but I leave it to the culinary experts out there. Here is the full sentence:

"Dans un moule flexipan longuet et à l’aide d’une poche pâtissière, dresser 140 g de pâte X par longuet."

I'm also wondering how to translate "longuet" into English but I'll post that in separate entry.

Thanks!
Daniel Weston
United States
pipe using a pastry bag
Explanation:
I think 'pipe' is fine here. Pastry or piping bags are used for making all kinds of pastry not just decorating cakes. It is just a way of getting an even, long shape. Sometimes fluted pastry bags are used to pipe the mixture with a fluted pattern for certain pastries.
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Gilla Evans
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4 +4pipe using a pastry bag
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4 +1squeeze out (using a pastry bag)gallagy2


  

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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
pipe using a pastry bag


Explanation:
I think 'pipe' is fine here. Pastry or piping bags are used for making all kinds of pastry not just decorating cakes. It is just a way of getting an even, long shape. Sometimes fluted pastry bags are used to pipe the mixture with a fluted pattern for certain pastries.

Gilla Evans
Local time: 01:32
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M: I'd say just 'pipe', there's no need to add 'piping bag', since there's no other meaning for 'pipe' in EN, unlike 'dresser' in FR
52 mins
  -> Yes, of course in practice you would just say pipe, thanks!

agree  Sharon Polson
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Sharon.

agree  LaraBarnett: Agree on basis of similar question in past that I remember.
6 hrs

agree  Verginia Ophof
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
squeeze out (using a pastry bag)


Explanation:
"pipe" is ok but imo used generally for decorating with icing so this is alternative for your context where it is dough especially if you are already using "pipe" elsewhere

whatscookingamerica.net/Cake/CreamPuff.htm









45 mins

Squeeze the mixture onto the pans. Using pastry bag: Put a 1/4-inch star tip into your pastry bag. Fill the bag with the dough. Squeeze the dough out in a circle ...

books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0764576453...Carole Bloom, Carole Bloom - 2007 - Cooking - 672 pages
Large pastry tubes fit into the pastry bag and part sticks out through the ... To release any air in the bag, squeeze a little of the contents back into the bowl.



tummythrills.blogspot.com/2011/04/choux-pastry-recipe.html


28 Apr 2011 – Fit pastry bag with a plain, round tip. Fill pastry bag with dough and squeeze out shapes of your choice. (We just used a plastic bag and cut a ...


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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Tony M: I have to say that this is a very non-technical term, and I would deprecate its use in this sort of context. Also, note that 'piping bag' is, I believe, the more common term in the UK.
46 mins
  -> offering a perfectly valid alternative! "pastry bag" more ghits than "piping" and asker is in US

agree  Yolanda Broad: The term I'd use.
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