No baking beans....

[Smowball]

I need to bake a pastry case but cannot find my jar of baking beans. What else can I use??

[Tilly2]

I use dried peas, smow.

[piggynose]

i use dry chick peas

[ummmm]

You can use rice but line it with baking paper.

[ojread2]

failing all of the above, if you have a baking tin the same size you could place that on top

[Smowball]

Dont have any dried peas or chick peas but do have rice and baking paper - thanks!

[valerieb1254]

I use my 1p & 2p coins.

[Smowball]

Coins - thats a good idea too.

[Mamyalynne]

I use coins too

[whiskeryron]

http://wayne-anthony....ng-beans-instead-use/

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[whiskeryron]

Don't think the link works so try again.

http://wayne-anthony....ng-beans-instead-use/

[Smowball]

yep that link worked whiskeyron - thanks.

[Anngel]

Not sure coins are a good idea. They may have bacteria on them....

[boxtops]

They'd soon be sterilised in the over, anngel.

[Smowball]

Plus you would have either foil or greaseproof paper under the coins

[diddlydo]

You don't need to put anything in the pastry case - just prick it all over with
a fine fork. Trick learned from St Delia in the 1970s!

[LyndaB]

I too use copper coins. Its a tip from Heston blumenthal. Works a treat!