Individual Pie Dishes? Help Please

Juliav_2

Hi all

I would love to find a cheap alternative to individual pie dishes to do little savoury pies for my sisters birthday.

Anyone have any fantastic ideas as to what I could use?

Would I be able to cook pies in glass ramekin dishes?

Would love to hear your ideas? Thanks

whatatwit

How small do you want the pies to be?

What about using a muffin tin, the deep ones would be about the size of a ramekin.
Or, I'm sure i've seen foil fluted cake cases, like the mince pie ones.

Juliav_2

probably about 10cm in diameter?

thanks

whatatwit

*Twit puts brain into gear and converts it into inches*

Ah, yes, I think I know the size you mean.
I have seen, in the past, as part of a non-stick set, some little shallow tins, that sort of size.
I don't know when you need them for, but are there any car boots near you. People clearing out cupboards might have something.

Or, invest in one from a shop, and then bake the pastry cases blind and do mini quiches.

Juliav_2

thanks for your help - having a look on ebay and going to head off to car boot.

whatatwit

Go to the forum search thing at the top of the main page for money saving old style.....and enter....." help please - oven pie trays " this was a thread from Squeaky in June about this sort of thing. (sorry but I can't do links)
There were several suggestions and links to ebay etc.

Rikki

whatatwit wrote: »

Go to the forum search thing at the top of the main page for money saving old style.....and enter....." help please - oven pie trays " this was a thread from Squeaky in June about this sort of thing. (sorry but I can't do links)
There were several suggestions and links to ebay etc.

Did you mean this one? PIE DISH THREAD

whatatwit

Thanks Rikki, one day I will master the art of links.

Horace

You could try going to Lidl - they have some in there as part of their offers dated 27 September and they're only 1.99

recovering_spendaholic

If you are anywhere near an Ikea, I got some lovely ceramic deep 10cm dishes which are perfect for pies for 50p each, however I know that going to Ikea just for pie dishes might be a bit much - I love Ikea, but generally lose the will to live after about half an hour in there IYKWIM;)

[Deleted User]

I bought almost all of mine from boot sales,making sure that if possible they were pyrex ones , or those brown eathenware ones .I have a really good stack of them as I like to batch cook and freeze pies and smaller portions of things as I live alone .I don't think I have paid more than about 20 p for any I have found at a boot sale ,sometimes you can get them in a charity shop as well.