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Can you use nuts as pie weights?
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by sophie5311
1 year ago
Wondering if you could use nuts such as almonds or walnuts as pie weights. Thanks!
baking pie shell without use of weights or rice/beans/
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by Dan Goldberg
19 years ago
Is there any way of baking a pie shell without putting in a filling or using pie weights or rice or beans? I was wondering if using foil around the top might keep the crust from caving in while ba...
Help! Need a sub for pie weights that isn't dried beans
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by momnivore
10 years ago
I'm making a crust for a blood orange tart and forgot that it needs pie weights. I know you can substitute dried beans but what if you don't have any? Can I try a smaller pie dish on top? Thanks!
About rice as pie weights
I have some sweet brown rice that I used in a project for a while . I'm wondering if I could now recycle it as pie weights, I know that white rice may be used for that purpose. Does somebody know i...
