PASTRY, that branch of cookery which is chiefly taken up in making pies, pasties, cakes, &c. See PASTE. Dr Cullen observes, that paste is very hard and indigestible without butter; and even with it, is apt to produce heartburn and accebery. Perhaps this is increased by the burned butter, from a certain sensibility in the stomach, which occasions all empyreumatic oils to be long retained, and so produce acidity.