Tala Retro Ceramic Baking Beans
Traditional ceramic beans for blind baking shortcrust pastry. The beans allow you to create professional sweet and savoury tarts with a crisp base at home.
The ultimate helper for pastry chef's, bakers and home cooks alike - these ceramic baking beans helps to prevent blistering and shrinkage during baking
The beans conduct heat for even pastry baking, so you get perfectly cooked pastry everytime
The 700g content of baking beans will cover up to 32cm/ 13" flan tin
100% reusable and totally heat resistant
The ceramic baking beans come packaged in a delightful and unique retro tin, based on the original packaging from the 1950s
Quick Overview
Instructions;
Prepare your pastry in the dish for blind-baking.
Prick the unbaked pastry case with a fork.
Cover with baking paper then fill with a layer of Tala baking beans.
Pack the beans against the sides as this is where the pastry is likely to shrink during baking.
After baking allow the ceramic beans to cool before handling.
More Info
Tala is one of the oldest and best loved of kitchenware brands. A trusted supplier of baking and cake decorating equipment since 1899, Tala has grown to supply cooks and bakers all over the world. It is perhaps best known for the Tala Dry Cook's Measure, an iconic symbol of British baking. It is during the 1920s that we can find the first records of it, which means it is now approaching 100 successful years of production in the UK!
Use & Care
Care Instructions:
We recommend only hand-washing when absolutely necessary and make sure to dry thoroughly before storing.
Oven safe
Fridge and freezer safe
Approx 700g
