Yes you can use a kuchen crust for any pie.
You can use dried beans, rice, or ceramic pie weights as substitutes for pie weights when baking a pie crust.
You will use a pre-baked pie crust when you are making a cream pie, when filling the pie crust with fresh fruit, or anything that does not require baking.
A blind baked crust
To use beans as pie weights when baking a pie crust, line the crust with parchment paper, fill it with dried beans, and bake as directed. The beans will help the crust keep its shape while baking.
Yes, you can use puff pastry as a substitute for traditional pie crust. Puff pastry will create a flakier and more buttery crust compared to traditional pie crust.
To use pie weights effectively when baking a pie crust, first line the crust with parchment paper or foil, then fill it with the weights to prevent the crust from puffing up or shrinking during baking. Bake the crust according to the recipe instructions, then remove the weights carefully before filling and finishing the pie.
yes
It must first be blind baked
Sweet potato pie is usually made with a regular single pie crust made with flour, lard / shortening, a bit of salt and cold water. The crust should not be pre-baked. Also, a graham-cracker pie crust is quite tasty with sweet potato pie.
Well, they are nominally used to keep the bottom crust flat during the crust baking, preceding the actual pie bake.
A single pie crust is a crust that will fill the bottom of the pie tin - or cover the pie on top - but not both. A double pie crust requires about twice as much dough, and is enough to cover both the bottom and the top.Some pies, like pumpkin, typically have only a bottom crust. Others, like apple pie and meat pies, use both a bottom and a top crust. The top crust functions like a lid on the pie, helping to contain the heat while the contents bake.