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If you’ve ever blind-baked a pie crust (essential for desserts like pumpkin pie), it’s likely you’ve encountered the tragedy that is a shrunken pie crust.
You rolled out the dough, carefully placed it in the pie dish, made a perfectly crimped edge, and transferred it to the oven to pre-bake before adding the filling. But what came out of the oven was something almost unrecognizable. A much smaller, seriously shrunken version of what went into the oven; a crust that definitely will not cut it for your pie. Here are a few reasons why it happened, and how to make sure your pie crust doesn’t shrink again.
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