Make life a bit easier when it comes to baking pastry cases - with this pot of beans. Far superior to dried peas, beans or rice these virtually indestructible ceramic beans conduct heat to allow even cooking

Simply press your pastry around your flan tin, prick with a fork, cover with baking paper and fill with a layer of these beans. Put in the oven and cook and you will get perfect pastry cases every time.

The beans are heat resistant, can be used time and time again and come in a plastic 500g tub for easy storage.