Pie help please

[shinybaubles]

Can I make a pie in a cake tin or a glass/pyrex dish like a roasting tray, or do I need a specific pie dish? Would like to make a pie with pastry on the bottom as well as the top so I am guessing that's shortcrust? Any pie makers with advice?

I make my pies v succesfully just using a dinner plate.....only deep fill pies require a dish.

Unless you are doing a pork pie (or equiv) where a cake pan would be ideal. Probably best to use a loose bottomed one.

Wanted to do a beef pie, so a cake tin where the bottom comes out? I am not living in the UK at the moment, so can't nip out and pick up a pie dish.

Is it going to be a hot beef pie (with gravy?)

I would cook it in a pyrex dish with the pastry on top only.

any dish not too deep will do. put the pie filling in cold or it will make bottom pastry soggy and might leak. cake tin / removable bottom only for hot water crust.

this sort of thing?

I use the lid from a Pyrex casserole dish for pies. Works a treat as it's not too deep. You'll need shortcrust pastry for the bottom and either shortcrust or flaky for the top. Don't forget to blind-bake the bottom crust before filling. Or, do as BigTillyMint suggests and forget the bottom crust entirely.

Well at home I use a pyrex pie dish, but school dinners pies are made in tins like that!

Thanks for the help have made the filling today, so will do the pie tomorrow. Will try blind baking the bottom and hope that works.

I usually make steak pie with ruff-puff pastry, bottom and top.

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I don't blind bake it - I don't blind bake anything.

Life's too short...

I dont blind bake either - i buy a shortcrust mix roll it out put the steak in and mushrooms put the lid on crimp it and bang it in a hot oven in 30 mins its cooked and dh is like this>> .

My home educated ds was hanging over me as I wrote that and hes just said is it safe for blind people to bake pies for other people .....

Its ok Ive explained what it is - just tickled me.

He has learned something new today!!!