pie plate
Noun
Meaning
pie plate (plural pie plates)
A small dish in which pies are baked.
Examples
Although I don’t have a small pan that will go from stove top to oven, i’ll have to tranfer to a pie plate, pour eggs on top and put in the oven, hopefully that won’t mess anything up!
For this pie, I use a 10-inch (25 cm) flan plate; however, a 9-inch (23 cm) pie plate works too, it just makes for a higher pie!
Melt butter in 9-inch pie plate and pour batter on top of it.
As a society, and perhaps as a species, we are doomed, condemned by our shortsightedness to rip off the quick profit and laugh another day, despite the clear knowledge that the pie plate is almost empty, and one day soon there will be nothing left to eat.
Lay and centre the rolled-out pastry on a 9-inch pie plate making sure that the overhanging pastry is evenly distributed.
Line a 9-inch / 23-cm pie plate with the pie dough.