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Summary: Learn from our expert chef how to top a puff pastry appetizer for your guests in this free cooking video on dinner party appetizer recipes.
Marieve Herington, has had a passion for the culinary arts and entertaining since she was very young, opening her first freelance Event coordinating and catering company when she was...read more
"So we've got our puff pastry dough nicely rolled out here. I'm just going to make an egg wash. This is just a glorified way of saying that I'm going to crack open an egg, whisk it with a fork and get out a pastry brush, and I'm going to paint, instead of butter the way that I was with the phyllo pastry, or "FY-lo" it's pronounced sometimes. I always worried I'd be mispronouncing it. I've always grown up hearing it called "FI-Lo" pastry, so I looked it up and apparently both are correct. But, this is not phyllo pastry, this is puff pastry. Now that that is nicely brushed with that, this is acting as a binding agent, as eggs often do, for cheese. I'm just breaking up some of the pieces there. This is a freshly grated, good quality, parmesan reggiano cheese. I'm very liberally, yeah the cheese will get everywhere. So what. Once that is like that we just want to take the rolling pin again, and gently press it into the dough. You could add other toppings. I've done this recipe using the herbs that were in season; I've put some rosemary in them before. But you know what? I've found that the best that it ever came out was when I just let that good quality aged cheese stand on its own. Next, we will cut it into the straw formation."
eHow Article: How to Top a Puff Pastry Appetizer