Pie crust - what did I do wrong?

[melpomene]

I'm baking a pie crust. Made sweet short crust pastry (from recipe used many times before), chilled and then baked blind at GM5 in a glass flan dish. I put baking beads in, and when I got it out of the oven the beads had sunk into the pastry base (still not fully cooked) and I had to pick them out one by one, leaving a mushy honeycomb effect on the base.

Any ideas what I did wrong? Is it because I used a glass dish instead of a metal one?

No idea but bumping for you..

This is going to sound stupid, but do you normally put the beans straight on to the crust? I usually put baking parchment in first - did you maybe just forget to do that?

no melpomene, I only use a glass piecase and never had that problem.

most of my recipes tell you to put a piece of greaseproof paper on top of the crust and the beads on top of that - perhaps that stops them sinking in??

Nothing to do with glass - we use china flan dishes and bake blind without that effect
If you normally use a metal dish then maybe you should have cooked for longer...but my money is on human error with the GM setting or a buggered oven thermostat

ooh x-post with Habbibu

Parchment, duh, of course
We (or dh, rather) use baking parchment

Are we all here because that thread about unanswered threads suddenly reappeared in active convos (melpomene has probably eaten all the pie some hours ago)

Like Habbibu I make the pastry base, then put baking parchment or greaseproof paper over it, THEN put the baking beans on top

Oops - yes, Marina - blame talliac - she got here first...

yes blame me, i can take it..

Still really want to know if she just forgot the parchment.

Hi! Sorry, I forgot I'd started this thread. You're right; I didn't put baking parchment in. I normally put the beans straight on to the crust and have never had this problem before! But then I've always used a metal dish before.

I baked the crust a bit more without the beans, and the pie was very nice in the end (chocolate raisin pie).

I'll use parchment next time. Thanks.

Phew! We were all on tenterhooks...

well, I was. A little bit.