What Is Rough Puff Pastry?

Flaky pastry, also known as quick pastry, blitz pastry or rough puff, is a light and flaky unleavened pastry that is similar to, but distinct from, puff pastry. It is often called quick pastry or blitz pastry in reference to the short time its preparation requires.

What is the difference between rough puff pastry and puff pastry?

The biggest difference between rough puff pastry (also known as flaky pastry) and classic puff pastry is that in the rough version you break the butter up into small pieces before combining with the flour, instead of incorporating as one large slab of butter.

Is rough puff the same as pie crust?

Super-flaky pie crust: a simpler puff pastry

Puff pastry will indeed create a super-flaky pie crust; but it's also a time-consuming and exacting process. ... Rough puff relies on the same ingredients as classic puff pastry, but eliminates the shaping and flattening of the butter and many of the turns.