Pan loaf

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Pan loaf
Type Bread
Place of origin Scotland
Northern Ireland

A pan loaf is a style of bread loaf baked in a loaf pan or tin. [1] [2] It is the most common style available in the United Kingdom, though the term itself is predominantly Scottish and Northern Irish to differentiate it from the plain loaf. The pan loaf has a soft pale brown crust all around the bread, in contrast to a plain loaf's darker crust only at the top and bottom. [2]

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Idiomatic usage

A pan loaf was once more expensive than the then more common plain loaf. [1] Therefore, in Scots and Scottish English, to speak with a pan loafy voice is to speak in a posh or affected manner, e.g. the distinctive accents of Kelvinside, Glasgow and Morningside, Edinburgh. [1] [2] [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Robinson, Mairi (1985). The Concise Scots Dictionary. Aberdeen University Press. p. 472. ISBN   0-08-028492-2.
  2. 1 2 3 "Useful Scots Words: Pan Loaf". Caledonian Mercury. Archived from the original on 1 July 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
  3. ↑ "Dictionaries of the Scots Language:: SND :: pan n1 v".


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