Step 6: Oil your baking pan, then shape your loaf: Flour a work surface, then gently coax the blob of dough onto it. If you can, roll the mass up.

WASHINGTON, DC-November 4: Pate Grandmere. (Scott Suchman/For the Washington Post) Have you made anything in your loaf pan lately? Here’s a selection of recipes for quick breads, meat loaves and ...

Loaf pans are one of the most practical kitchen tools. They don’t have the fancy ridges of a Bundt. They lack the drama of a tube pan. And, yet, there’s so much you can do with them.