: to bake (a pastry or pie shell) before adding a filling
Fill the crust with pie weights (dried rice or beans work fine) and blind-bake the crust until it is just set, 10 to 12 minutes.—Emeril Lagasse, Farm to Fork: Cooking Local, Cooking Fresh, 2010 Let the blind-baked tart shell cool partially on a wire rack.—Vitaly Paley et al., The Paley's Place Cookbook, 2008
blind baking
noun
If pastry is to have a moist filling, it will probably require partial blind baking to prevent the base becoming soggy.
—Murdoch Books, The Essential Baking Cookbook, 2005
Save the beans or rice and use them again for blind baking.
—Gwen Schoen, Sacramento (California) Bee, 19 July 2006
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