Welcome to the National Bread Museum of Grain-Baking-Bread Culture
~ the Home Baking Artifact Index ~
This is quite an extensive list because not only do we have a considerable category of baked items, but then there are the many "forms" of baking pans, quite a few for a specific baked item, but also, some items can be "baked" in a whole series of various pans!
PANS or BAKEWARE
BASIC RECIPE CATEGORIES affiliated with SPECIFIC PANS
BREAD ~~~ CAKE ~~~ COOKIES ~~~ CUPCAKE~GEM~MUFFIN~POPOVER ~~~ JELLY ROLL ~~~ KUGELHOPF ~ ~ ~ PIE ~~~ PIZZA ~~~ SPECIALTIES
the GENERAL KINDS OF PANS . . .
Angel Food ~~ Bundt ~~ Cast Iron ~~ Enamelware ~~ Flan ~~ Graniteware ~~ Layer ~~ Loaf ~~ Molded ~~ Quiche ~~ Ring ~~ Shaped ~~ Sheet ~~ Springform ~~ Tart ~~ Tube
(Here's a visual, intro index as a sample of the above BASIC RECIPE CATEGORIES affiliated with) SPECIFIC PANS
(Here's a visual, intro index - a sample of the above list of 16 . . .) KINDS OF PANS
BREAD PANS ~~~ LOAF PANS
They come in all sizes, & a few variations of shapes when closer to today's time!
The U. S. "standard" for a traditional loaf of yeast bread is 9x5. Many "quick" breads use an 8x4.
(On the Right) German -- Bought in the flohmarkts 1988-91. A smooth steel; 3 sizes about 3.5"x6" (top one) to bottom: 6" x 4" ends x 12" long. Heavy with sharp angles.
(Below) I believe I bought 3 of these in England . . . loved the old, crusty outside! Heavy steel. Straight sides. 9' x 5"x4.5". I seems as if they'd seen their days in fire?!?
3 shapes of flower, star, & heart ~~ Never used one & I think it would be time consuming to clean the inside. Info says they're for bread or cookie dough. Made in Taiwan. About 2.5" x 10". (source - a thrift shop)
Superstone Bread Baking Crocks 1988, Sassafras Enterprises, Evanston,IL;
4.25"rd x 5.1/8"; $7.99 in a thrift store
I'm not short on bread pans if I'd have the time to make bread these days, but these were a find on the September, Nebraska Junk Jaunt Days in 2025, & absolutely had served someone (or several home bakers) extremely well! If only they could talk & tell us of the hands who used them, & lives in which they helped provide for during possibly, the last 100 years.
4 bread-loaf pans; from 4.75"W to 10.75"L to 3"H; in a $10 buy of 16 items.
The day-long Junk Jaunt is a link in the menu under (1) Bread Culture Artifacts.
COMMERCIAL BREAD PANS from a bakery in France -- The ovals are about 9" x 5". They're hooked together. A man in Kansas imported, sight unseen, the contents of entire bakeries from Europe which were going out of business. Got these around the year 2000, at his place out in the country!
CAKE PANS
Angel Food - Traditional;
Tube Pans of all sorts . . .
Besides the well-known Angel Food Cake Pan (a U. S. cake from the 1800's era), there are the Bundt Pan (created in the 1950 time frame), along with the European Kugelhopf (the spelling I'm most familiar with vs. Gugelhupf) that has a centuries-long history in Europe & came to this country via immigrants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gugelhupf
CAKE PANS
Angel Food - Traditional;
Tube Pans of all sorts . . .
Besides the well-known Angel Food Cake Pan (a U. S. cake from the 1800's era) are the Bundt Pan (created in the 1950 time frame), along with the European Kugelhopf (the spelling I'm most familiar with vs. Gugelhupf) that has a centuries-long history in Europe & came to this country via immigrants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gugelhupf
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CUPCAKE ~ MUFFIN Type Pans
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COOKIE PANS ~ SHEET PANS
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JELLY ROLL PANS
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KUGELHOPF
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PIE
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PIZZA PANS
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SPECIALTIES
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