The Pullman loaf, sometimes called the "
sandwich loaf
A sandwich loaf is a stacked savory party entrée made from a loaf of horizontally sliced bread. Typical fillings include egg salad, chicken salad, ham salad, tuna salad, and Cheez Whiz. While rare today, the food was quite popular during the ...
" or "pan bread", is a rectangular loaf of
white bread
White bread typically refers to breads made from wheat flour from which the bran and the germ layers have been removed from the whole wheatberry as part of the flour grinding or milling process, producing a light-colored flour. This milling pro ...
baked in a long, narrow, lidded pan. The French term for this style of loaf is ''
pain de mie
''Pain de mie'' is a white or brown bread with a thin, soft crust. It is mostly sold sliced and packaged in France. is the French word for "bread", and is the soft part of bread, called the crumb in English.
Description
''Pain de mie'' is m ...
'', or, less commonly, ''pain anglais''.
European breadmakers began using square lidded pans in the early 18th century to minimize crust. Railway service pioneer
George Pullman
George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town, Pullman, for the workers who manufactured it. This ulti ...
chose the loaf for use on his
Pullman railcars for efficiency reasons. Three Pullman loaves occupied the same space as two standard round-topped loaves, thus maximizing the use of space in the small Pullman kitchen.
See also
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Bread pan
A bread pan, also called a loaf pan, is a kitchen utensil in the form of a container in which bread is baked. Its function is to shape bread while it is rising during baking. The most common shape of the bread pan is the loaf, or narrow rect ...
(kitchen utensil in which bread is baked)
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Sandwich bread
Sandwich bread (also referred to as sandwich loaf) is bread that is prepared specifically to be used for the preparation of sandwiches. Sandwich breads are produced in many varieties, such as white, whole wheat, sourdough, rye, multigrain ...
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Sliced bread
Sliced bread is a loaf of bread that has been sliced with a machine and packaged for convenience, as opposed to the consumer cutting it with a knife. It was first sold in 1928, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry si ...
, with the whole loaf of bread sliced at once by machine, first used in 1928
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