Toaster pastry

Abstract

A dough and a filling for making a toaster pastry and a method for making same. A method of forming the dough for the toaster pastry, comprises forming a blend of ingredients comprising wheat flour of from about 25 to about 44% by weight of ingredients for the dough, wheat farina of from about 13 to about 35% by weight of ingredients for the dough, shortening of from about 1.5 to about 2.5% by weight of ingredients for the dough, and water of from about 25 to about 35% by weight of ingredients for the dough; adding puff pastry shortening in the form of cubes such that the amount of puff pastry shortening is in the range of from about 5 to about 15% by weight of the ingredients for the pastry; and blending the ingredients such that a heterogeneous mixture of the cubes of shortening in the remainder of the ingredients is obtained. In a preferred aspect, the method further comprises forming the dough into a layered structure, the layered structure comprising a single base sheet of the dough covered with a pastry filling, with a single top sheet of the pastry blend of the dough applied thereover.

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         36 . A filling comprising fruit of from about 1 to about 50% by weight of ingredients of the filling; water of from about 20 to about 50% by weight of ingredients of the filling; a sweetener of from about 20 to about 40% by weight of ingredients of the filling; corn syrup of from about 6 to about 20% by weight of ingredients of the filling; modified starch of from about 4 to 7% by weight of ingredients of the filling; a gum of from about 0.3% to about 0.7% by weight of ingredients of the filling; and an acid of from about 0.3% to about 0.7% by weight of ingredients of the filling, said filling having a viscosity of at least about 62,000 cps and a pH of from about 2.8 to 3.2.  
     
     
         37 . The filling of  claim 36  further comprises an additional ingredient selected from the group consisting of flavors, preservatives, salt, hydrogenated vegetable oil and coloring.  
     
     
         38 . The filling of  claim 36 , wherein the fruit is selected from the group consisting of fresh fruit, frozen fruit, dehydrated fruit, dehydrated fruit powder and mixtures thereof.  
     
     
         39 . The filling of  claim 36 , wherein the gum is selected from the group consisting of agar-agar, locus bean gum, guar gum, xanthan gum, alginates, carageenan gum and mixtures thereof.  
     
     
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