Pavilion Frozen Flaky Pastry
By Qriusgeorge on 01 December 2011 | Viewed 844 times
Review
Pavilion have entered the GF pastry market and offer a range of frozen pastry’s - flaky, shortcrust, sweet. This reveiw is for flaky only. It comes in 400g blocks, I purchased a block at my local New World for $6.99.
Pros
At $6.99 its not the most expensive gluten free pastry I have seen.
Cons
Where to start - this pastry looks, smells and feels like playdough. It is unrollable - it stuck to everything: the rolling pin, the non stick board, it even stuck to baking paper and cling film (when rolled in between sheets of either baking paper or cling film - my usual trick for difficult to roll gf pastry). I tried flouring it with GF flour - still no result. I can’t tell you what it tasted like as I couldn’t even “peicemeal” it together to press into a pie dish. The smell alone put me off anyway.
Bottom Line
If you are looking for an expensive alternative to playdough - this is it.
Ingredients
Gluten Free Flour [Starch (Maize, Modified Maize (1422), Potato, Tapioca), Rice Flour, Soy Flour], Margarine [Palm Oil, Water, Salt, Emulsifier (471, Soy Lecithin), Antioxidant (307), EDTA (385), Colour (160A), Flavour], Water, Iodised Salt.
Price Paid - $6.99
Comments about this product / add yours
I also found this pastry very hard to work with but sill managed to make a nice tasting pie with it. I had to press the pastry into my pie dish (as rolling it made a mess). I had to roll a small piece for the top with rice flour which i cut into strips to place over it. The pastry cooked well and made a nice tasting pie. Was not as nice as the other 2 brands of gf flaky pastry i use but still good and cheaper.
Posted by mandups on 10/01/12 at 05:48 PM
I bought some of the Pavillion GF flaky pastry at the Gluten and Allergy show last year. Decided I better use it up and made 4 bacon and egg pies. I had enough pastry for the bases and just used the left overs to put some strips over the top.
I rolled it between two sheets of baking paper - didnt seem bad to work with. You need to keep it cool(ish) to work with of course.
Was very pleased with the results - will never be as flaky as wheat based pastry - but it did have ‘some’ flake..
Will buy again - just need to find it! Countdown have it on their website at $6.49 - dont know if they all have it.
Posted by Robert on 13/02/12 at 12:49 PM
I have used this pastry twice and have no problems with it - I dusted my work surface with rice flour and kept it cold and used a cold rice flour dusted marble rolling pin and we love it - we are all Gf and dairy free so pastry is a real treat - made some yum sausage rolls!
Posted by Tracey on 28/04/12 at 02:56 PM
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Thanks for this review and the heads up. I actually have some in the freezer and haven’t used it yet, at least now I know what to expect. Have also bought some Phoenix Bakery flaky pastry as well, so hopefully that fairs better!
Posted by Teresa on 07/12/11 at 09:59 AM