Does anyone know the term "dipper pan"?

[shaun-in-to]

A colleague was asking yesterday. A bit of googling suggests it's an older name for a 9 x 13 baking pan. But it doesn't show up in dictionaries, and we wondered if it was a regional term.

 

[lisainla]

Grwoing up, all of the church ladies used to make cakes in "dripper" pans -

I always asked my mom why we didn't have one, and she handed me the "cake" pan - 9 x 13.

 

[shaun-in-to]

Yes, "dRipper." Sorry, my typo. In what part of the country did you grow up, Lisa?

 

[georgiarose]

It may have been called a dripper pan due to the similar shape drip pans old refrigerators had.

 

[melissa-dallas]

I had to laugh once at a guy I was dating. He kept talking about a "meat loaf pan". He was 6'5"

and was the SMALL one in his family with five brothers & sisters. Turned out he was calling a 13X9 pan a meat loaf pan. Guess if you have that many big hungry kids it might be!

 

[CathyZ]

Another theory might be that it held the fat drippings from roasted meats and

in really olden days drippings were used not only to bake but to grease pans.

 

[lisainla]

Hi Shaun,

It was in Utah - we were from CA, and I felt like I had moved to a foreign country the first year we lived there.

As soon as I turned 18 I high-tailed it back to CA and never looked back! smileys/smile.gif

 

[lisainla]

LOL!