Quiche

[rockyracoon]

I'm making a quiche tomorrow (well, I'm making the filling, the pastry I bought), do you have to bake the case first or can it wait til you cook the filling?

Many thanks for any replies.

[nannybooby]

yes you need to bake it blind ie pput a tin foil or baking parchment in the base and up the sides and weigh down with baking beans or any dried pulses you have to hand. This will keep the bottom crisp.....remember to prick the bottom ist.

[boxtops]

bake first, it'll be dreadfully soggy if you do it all at once.

[vodkancoke]

As others have said, definitely blind bake it first.

You have made me want quiche now! lol

[erin-x]

I want quiche as well now! All i've got is some pasta in the fridge. Haven't even ventured through to see what kind it is! Haha!

[rockyracoon]

Thanks all, I knew you'd probably say bake it, I was beng lazy ;)

I had a recipe for a filling on an open tab and I've just closed it by mistake and now I can't find it :(

[Iluvspikey]

can you go back in your history and retrieve it

[rockyracoon]

Good thinking batman :)

[rockyracoon]

Shut the tab down so can't get the history (iPad) :(

[coccinelle]

I never bake my quiche pastry blind. I have an electric oven and make sure the quiche is positioned low down in the oven. it certainly isn't soggy.

[Anngel]

Also, if you take it out a couple of minutes before it is baked blind and brush the bottom with egg wash it stops soggy bottom!

[rockyracoon]

Just taken the case out of the oven to take the beans out and give it the last few minutes, it's fluffing shrink, not impressed. There's not much depth for the filling now! Grrrrrr

I wish I'd made my own now, I did in the week when I made a lemon meringue and that came out perfect. That'll teach me :(

[bednobs]

in future, if you using a metal tin, put it on a metal baking tray, then you don't have to bb it because the heat gets directed to the bottom

[DaisyNonna]

Mmm. Got some baby clams. Good for a quiche?

[rockyracoon]

Bednobs, it went on a preheated baking tray. Do you know why it might have shrunk? Not that it mattered, it was delicious, thankfully ;)

Daisy, not sure about clams!