{{Short description|Culinary term for a crust or pie-crust of any type}} {{refimprove|date=June 2017}} {{Infobox prepared food | name = Croustade | image = Making Pear pie with puff pastry.jpg | caption = Pear-shaped croustade | image_alt = Pear-shaped croustade | alternate_name = | country = France | region = | creator = | course = | type = | served = | main_ingredient = Flaky pastry or puff pastry | variations = | calories = | other = }}
A '''croustade''' ({{langx|oc|crostada}}) is a crust or pie-crust of any type. They are usually made of flaky pastry or puff pastry, but there are also bread croustades (''croustade de pain de mie''), potato croustades (''petites croustades en pommes de terre duchesse''), rice, semolina and vermicelli croustades, among others.
This French culinary term is derived from the Occitan and Catalan term ''crostada'', which derive from Italian ''crostata'', and the English term custard derives from it.<ref>Skeat: 1911. Page 125.</ref>
== Recipe ==
* 300 gr flour + extra for rolling * 1 generous pinch of salt * 300 gr unsalted butter (note:European butter is higher in butterfat) * 150 ml cold water * 100 gr white granulated sugar<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-01-23 |title=La Croustade aux Pommes |url=https://relaisdecamont.com/blog/2019/1/23/la-croustade-aux-pommes |access-date=2026-01-11 |website=Relais de Camont |language=en-US}}</ref>
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==References== {{refbegin}} *{{cite book|title=Le Guide Culinaire|last=Escoffier|first=Auguste|author-link=Auguste Escoffier|location=Paris|publisher=Flammarion|year=1903|ref=Escoffier}} *{{cite book|title=Larousse Gastronomique|others=Translated from the French, Librairie Larousse, Paris (1938)|publisher=Crown Publishers|year=1961|ref=Larousse}} *{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924008779690#page/n145/mode/2up|title=A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language|last=Skeat|first=Walter William|location=New York|publisher=American Book Company|year=1911|ref=Skeat}} {{refend}} {{commons category|Croustades}}
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