SC - pie beans?

[Mike C. Baker]

- ---Mark Harris <mark_harris at risc.sps.mot.com> wrote:
> > Bake the pie shell blind (filled with pie beans 
> > or topped with another pie pan so it doesn't puff up) 
> What are *pie beans*? Are these some kind of special 
> synthetic bean-like item made for this purpose? 
> Or do you mean just use a pile of uncooked beans?
 
Stefan, I do not have documentation for this, *but*:
I believe that there are several possibilities
that have been used. Well-washed (and dried) river
pebbles may have been an early form of this. I vaguely
recall a more modern form in which the "beans" are
actually unglazed but no more than semi-porous ceramic.

Heated in advance, such stones would also have been 
used to assist in cooking meat or fowl from the inside.
("Polynesian-style" pig roasting would be a parallel.)

I eagerly await hearing more definitive / learned
information.

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