An Appliance for Use in Baking Pastry for Fruit or other Tarts.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Mar,, 1899-Accepted, 12th Aug., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Use in Baking Pastry for Fruit or other Tarts.
I, MARGARET BROWNE, of 29, Park Street, Worksop, in the County of Notting-
ham, Spinster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:
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This invention relates to an appliance for use in baking pastry for fruit or
other tarts and consists essentially of a sheet metal shape blocked-up or otherwise
formed in the central part to give the required shape to the central part of the
crust or pastry to be baked thereon for each tart while the surrounding edge of
said appliance is formed flat or corresponding to the top edge of the pie-dish
in conjunction with which said appliance is to be used; while in every case
this said appliance according to my invention is provided with legs or supports
of any suitable character so that said shape does not touch the oven shelf or
grating but is held and supported by its said legs or supports with a clear space
intervening between the underside of the shape and the surface of the oven shelf.
or grating.
Referring to the accompanying drawings: Fig. 1 is a plan of said appliance
and Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line 2-2 Fig. 1-the appliance being here
shown with three fixed legs.
Figs. 3 and 4 are corresponding views of the appliance with only two supports,
viz. 1 broad support at each end; and Fig. 5 is an end view thereof.
Fig. 6 shows a modified construction of said end supports.
a is a blocked-up centre part having the flat or level edge b surrounding same,
this shape ab being advantageously formed of thin or other suitable tin-plate.
This said flat or level edge b being advantageously a little wider that is of
rather larger dimensions-than the top edge of the pic-dish so as to allow for
shrinkage of the pastry in cooking.
cc are the fixed legs shown in Figs. 1 and 2 riveted to the edge b.
dd (see Figs. 3 to 5) are spring-hinged legs or supports made broad across
the bottom edge thereof and spring-hinged at the top edge thereof to the under-
side of the edge b so that said supports d can be folded (as indicated in dotted
linos in Fig. 4) when out of use; or said plates d may be riveted or otherwise
fixed rigidly to the underside of the edge b.
e is corresponding support to d only made of wire as shown in Fig. 6 instead
of cut out of a sheet metal plate as shown in Figs. 3 to 5 said support e being
hinged or fixed as desired.
It will be obvious that any other suitable form of legs or support. for this
appliance may be employed without departing from the nature of my invention.
The appliance is used as follows:-
The pastry to be baked is laid upon the shape or mould a band cut or trimmed
to correspond or thereabouts with the edge thereof and then the appliance with
the pastry thereon is placed in the oven or other suitable cooking apparatus and
is there cooked, the heat cooking said pastry both on the outside and on the
underside thereof-the thinness of the metal plate and the fact of the latter

page_text: being raised and held supported clear above the oven shelf or grating thereby
allowing heat to cook the underside of the pastry similarly to the upper side.
The fruit or other material or substance with which the pie is to be made is
cooked or prepared separately either in the pie-dish itself or otherwise as dosired,
and when same is ready in the pie-dish and when the pastry (crust) has thus
been cooked separately on my appliance said crust is lifted off the latter and
placed on the pic-dish over the contents therein and the pie is now ready.
These appliances (shapes or moulds) will be made in a series of sizes and shapes
to suit the varying sizes and shapes of pie-dishes in conjunction with which same
are to be used and said appliance and pie-dish may advantageously be sold
together.
By this invention I am enabled to do away with the sodden and indigestible
under-crust caused by the steam from the fruit etc. which occurs when making
pies or tarts in the ordinary way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. An appliance for use in baking pastry for fruit or other tarts or pies con-
sisting of a shape or mould formed from sheet metal dished or blocked up as
to the central portion thereof with the surrounding edge level and corresponding
in size and shape to the edge of the pie-dish in conjunction with which same
is to be used and two or more legs or other suitable supports on the underside of
said shape or mould so as to support the latter above the shelf or grating of the
cooking chamber substantially in the mauner and for the purposes hereinbefore
set forth.
2. An appliance for use in baking pastry for fruit or other tarts or pies con-
structed combined and arranged to act substantially in the manner and for the
purposes hereinbefore set forth.
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