that branch of cookery which is chiefly taken up in making pies, pasties, cakes, &c. See PASTRE.

Dr Cullen observes, that paste is very hard and indigestible without butter; and even with it, is apt to produce heart-burn and acidity. 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 turn rancid and acid.