If you're making a lemon curd pie, you don't have to bake the whole thing,
you just pre-bake the crust and put a sheet of plastic wrap on the curd and
it won't form crust.

"N. Thornton" > wrote in message
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> Hi
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> Baking an open top pie produces a hard top surface. For the next one I
> need a soft moist surface, no crusting. Its a basic question, but how
> do I achieve this?
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> Its going to be lemon curd pie, lemon juice and peel in pineapple
> juice set with eggs, in a pastry bottm and sides. An its going to be
> irresistible. But how do I prevent that crust?
>
> Pies like this have been taking 1hr 15 mins at 170C, and theyre about
> 1.7" deep.
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> Thanks, NT