Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

pâte feuilletée tourée au sucre

English translation:

puff pastry folded with sugar

Added to glossary by Laura Nagle (X)
Oct 22, 2016 22:39
7 yrs ago
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French term

pâte feuilletée tourée au sucre

French to English Other Cooking / Culinary pastry making process/technique
Product listing for a pastry item from Bretagne:

Pâte feuilletée tourée au sucre. Procédé touré-sucré qui restitue une saveur unique. La caramélisation garantit une texture aéré et craquante pendant 12 heures.

I'm struggling a bit with the tourée part, even though I can picture the process. I currently have "rolled, sugared puff pastry," but I'd be happy to have confirmation or other suggestions.
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Discussion

Nikki Scott-Despaigne Oct 23, 2016:
A puff pastry wrap is just an ordinary pâte feuilleté which can be used in savoury or in sweet presentations. It is not a wrap here, and not savoury, excluded by the "touré-sucré" element.
Chakib Roula Oct 23, 2016:
I would think of a "sugared wrapped pastry".
Laura Nagle (X) (asker) Oct 22, 2016:

Proposed translations

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puff-pastry folded with sugar

"donner un tour" is a stage in making puff pastry:

http://lesotlylaisse.over-blog.com/article-realiser-une-pate...

Normal puff pastry does not have any sugar in it.

In some recipes, such as palmiers, sugar is sprinkled between the layers of puff pastry that has already had the requisite number of turns (I seem to remember palmiers being a way of using up the trimmings).

But this sounds like the sugar is incorporated into the layers during the "turning" process.


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Note added at 13 hrs (2016-10-23 11:47:26 GMT)
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Sorry, yes, don't know why I put a hyphen in puff pastry

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Note added at 15 hrs (2016-10-23 14:23:05 GMT)
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Following Niki's remark:

Il existe de nombreuses façons de tourer. Dans le site je vous explique le tourage en croix simple à 6 tours, le tourage en croix double à 4 tours et le tourage en portefeuille à 3 tours. En général, cette opération est réalisée sur un tour ! c'est à dire une plaque de marbre ou de métal refrigérée ce qui évite à la matière grasse de filer.
http://chefsimon.lemonde.fr/articles/lexique-tourer
Peer comment(s):

agree Sheri P : Except maybe no hyphen
9 mins
thanks, yes, you're right, no hyphen.
agree writeaway
1 hr
Thanks!
agree Jennifer White : Looks right to me.
1 hr
thanks
agree Nikki Scott-Despaigne : Neat solut° for the sugar added, not in the dough. Note that "tourer" is not the same as "tourner" and comes from the marble block or "tour" used to keep the M.G. cool and avoid streaking, as in 'dom. science' in my day (tourer/tourner oft. conf.'d in FR)
2 hrs
Thanks Nikki, I didn't know that about the marble!
agree Rachel Fell : trimmings or otherwise, I love palmiers :-)
3 hrs
Yes, only three ingredients, but so much more complicated than cookies!
agree Lee Nicoletti-Jones
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11 hrs

Rolled, sugared puff pastry folded into layers

Having looked at the link and some photos of a pâté tourée, layered was the word I could think of. It would come with translation loss as we wouldn't know the layers are made by folding the pastry or "towering" them if we are going to be literal! So I've chosen the more lengthy option as I believe it still does the job in conveying the making process.
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12 hrs

Sugared puff pastry

I think the confusion comes from the fact that you're grouping pâte feuilletée and tourée when the "tourage" (the act of folding it) is what turns "pâte" into "pâte feuilletée"
"Pâte feuilletée tourée" is redundant unless to imply that making the puff pastry was a previous step in the recipe. I would simply putt "sugared puff pastry" to avoid confusion with the target text.
Peer comment(s):

neutral Nikki Scott-Despaigne : This is almost an agree : in so far as the puff pastry technique, as I too have specified, requires to be "touré". The idea is that it is folded again, once the p. feuilletée has been prepared, so the sugar is inside, not just on top.//Reads as if in mix.
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12 hrs

kouign-amman type pastry

As puff pastry is made with folding and rolling, some sources don’t distinguish « tourer » as a separate technique. They should however, as the tourer-sucrer is being applied to an existing puff pastry (which has therefore already been folded etc to obtain the feuilletée). Personal view after having lived in Brittany for more than 20 years : this is a rather sickly pastry (pastry, as in the individual patisserie, not as in the ‘pastry dough’), akin to a “kouign amman”.
http://chefsimon.lemonde.fr/articles/lexique-tourer
http://www.supertoinette.com/glossaire-cuisine/441/culinaire...

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Note added at 12 hrs (2016-10-23 11:11:21 GMT)
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Is there an indication from your original to confirm whether this is the pasty (pâte) itself from which a number of (individual) pastries are made, or whether it is describing one such individual pastry?

http://www.bretagne-innovation.tm.fr/Actualites/Avec-sa-pate...

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Note added at 12 hrs (2016-10-23 11:14:08 GMT)
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Not unlike the "cachina" provençale either http://la-cachina.over-blog.com/article-pate-feuilletee-expr...

Kouign amman et cachina are often used as a base in recipes with great variations from one boulangerie to another. Apple, prunes, strawberries, raisins...

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Note added at 12 hrs (2016-10-23 11:25:15 GMT)
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As the puff pastry technique requires folding and rolling, which is after all what "tourer" means, what you describe is a technique which repeats the basic technque to create the pastry with the addition of sugar which is not mixed in the pastry base but added. When you bite into it, (yeuch, not my thing at all), the pastry sticks to the roof of your mouth, or if it's really crunchy, it melts in your mouth (altogether a more agreeable sensation. The successful crunchy ones enable you to feel and taste the crunchy caramelised sugary additions in the heat expanded layers. Brown ssugar with a little vanilla makes them at best (in my view) more or less palatable.

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Note added at 12 hrs (2016-10-23 11:28:18 GMT)
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The photo of the "cachina" makes the technique of the additional sugar quite clear.
Peer comment(s):

neutral Sheri P : I believe kouign-amann is made from a yeasted dough. We have no indication here that we're dealing with a pâte levée feuilletée. Safer to stick closer to the original./That's my point. K-A is made with yeast, but the asker's product is apparently not.
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K.A is indeed made with fresh yeast too.
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