Pastry vs. Bismarck — What's the Difference?

Pastry is a dough of flour, water and shortening (solid fats, including butter or lard) that may be savoury or sweetened. Sweetened pastries are often described as bakers' confectionery.

(North America) A dessert pastry:

Dough or paste consisting primarily of shortening or another fatty substance mixed with flour and water, often baked and used as a crust for sweet foods such as pies and tarts.

(Manitoba) A doughnut filled with cream, often with chocolate icing.

Baked sweet foods made with pastry

A jelly doughnut: a doughnut filled with jam and coated with sugar.

One of these baked foods.

(Midland US) A fried cruller, or a sort of pancake.

(Informal) A sweet baked good.

German statesman under whose leadership Germany was united (1815-1898)

(countable) A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.

Capital of the state of North Dakota; located in south central North Dakota overlooking the Missouri river

(uncountable) The food group formed by the various kinds of pastries.

(uncountable) The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.

A place where pastry is made.

(uncountable) The act or art of making pastry.

Desserts of all kinds, whether or not these incorporate the baked item made from flour and fat, or that section of a kitchen that prepares these.

The place where pastry is made.

Articles of food made of paste, or having a crust made of paste, as pies, tarts, etc.

A dough of flour and water and shortening

Any of various baked foods made of dough or batter