On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Pan Ohco wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:39:55 +0000 (UTC), "Rehn"
> > wrote:
>
> >I have the opposite problem to you - I live in the UK and our pans
> >and ready made pie crusts are
> >7 inch and all/most the recipes on the internet are for 9 inch -
> >especially pies - i always land up with left over pie filling when
> >using a ready made crust ( I use them alot as I seem to have a defiency in pastry making! lol)
> >Rehn
>
> Assuming the same depth in both pans, would not 7/8 th of a recipe be
> approximate, and time similarly shortened. It would be at least a
> start for an experiment.
>
> Pan Ohco

Assuming constant depth, it would be closer to 5/8 of the recipe size:
The area ratio is 7*7/9*9 = 49/81 = 4.8/8
If the 9 inch pan was deeper, it would be even farther off...

Dave