Another way to protect the crust is to use an aluminum pie plate with the
middle cut out.

"Dawn" > wrote in message
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> I'm baking pumpkin pies at the moment for our Thanksgiving dinner, which
> is tomorrow. (we always do it early for convenience) My crust is going to
> burn and I've accepted that, there's nothing I can do about it now. The
> problem is...I'm completely out of aluminum foil. So I have nothing to put
> around the edge of the crust to prevent burning. Is there anything else
> that can be done about this? You know, just in case I'm a bonehead and
> forget to buy aluminum foil again...