On Sunday I watched Chef Heston Blumenthal prepare a blind pie crust. He claims that pennies are the best thing to use when baking a crust. He placed a piece of foil over the dough and then put a thick layer of pennies over it. I would assume the pennies were carefully washed before hand.
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