Have a recipe for Irish Brown Bread that says to use a shortening pan & mentions the lid. Would a loaf pan with foil over the top work the same way?
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As someone who's eaten plenty of irish bread (and lived in Ireland) I have to say I've never heard of a shortening pan. Neither has Google! Where did this recipe come from?– miken32Commented Mar 15, 2015 at 2:33
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Is a shortening pan like a Pullman loaf pan?– CatijaCommented Mar 25, 2015 at 1:29
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Vegetable shortening used to come in a bucket-like tin, but I doubt that what your recipe is talking about unless it's fairly old.– Ross RidgeCommented Mar 25, 2015 at 5:50
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The only "loaf pan with a lid" I'm familiar with is the "Pullman" pan. I have seen suggestions to use a board wrapped in foil or foil under a casserole dish set on top of a regular loaf pan if trying to emulate that form without the right pan. Foil alone would probably not hold. I don't own one and have never emulated it. I suppose if someone was using a bread pan to store grease in for use as shortening, a Pullman pan would help to keep things out of it. But as with @miken32 I can't find any reference to a pan by that name.
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