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[PigletJohn]

Is there an English term for Viennoiserie?

Sweet, yeast-based small baked items such as croissants, snail buns, pains au chocolat, Danish pastries?

I think I would just refer to them as pastries but I'm sure Google will tell you something!

google gives examples, but not a word. I tend to the view that in English there isn't one.

I think I will call them pastries (even though it is incorrect) and if someone tells me it's wrong, I will agree and ask them for the English term.

No I don’t think there’s an English equivalent.

Although having just posted that there’s not , the closest is probably morning goods, although that includes bread so no exactly the same.

Morning goods or pastries.

Although, googling "Snail bun" brings up literal snail shaped Danish pastry type goods. Is there a better description?

Cinnamon roll is an example.

Pain aux raisins

So anything that has a snail shell spiral. Minus a head and clove or raisin for an eye! Thank you.

Why do you say 'pastries' is incorrect, OP?

Yeast-based bread products are not made of pastry.

Hmmm, I guess so. But that's still pretty much our name for them in English, regardless of what ingredients they have, so I'm not sure it counts as 'wrong'. Paste, pasta, pastry, pasty... all comes from the same word and you can change what you make them out of. Yeast-free bread, wheat-free various things etc. Besides,the plural 'pastries' is specifically for croissants, danishes etc, not used in the same way as the singular 'pastry'.

Agree pastries is correct. Even Danish pastries!

@PigletJohn

Yeast-based bread products are not made of pastry.

I had not twigged this at all!

Yes, I have only ever seen these items referred to as pastries or 'bakery items' or 'baked goods' on breakfast menus.

Viennoiseries or patisseries are much more beautiful words to describe them.

Thanks.

Pastries it is.

I had a grandfather who was a Swiss-French maître pâtissier and set up in England. He insisted that he was a Master Baker but it does not translate well as I don't think we have the equivalent. I think he wanted to convey that he was the business owner as well as a craftsman.

Anyone else craving pastries now?

Hot dogs don't contain any dog either....

English is a very odd language

I'd call them pastries/ breakfast pastries.

Anything actually made of pastry we'd call by it's form: pie, tart, turnover.

Mad really.