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There are few kitchen tasks as deceptively tricky as lining a baking pan with parchment paper. Whether you typically try to cut it down to the perfect size, just smoosh it in, crumple it up, or create ...

Whether you're baking a cake or broiling a delicious piece of salmon, it makes sense to cover up your baking pan to save yourself from the hard work of scrubbing the pan clean. While lining your ...

I have seen recipes that call for buttering or greasing a cake pan, then placing parchment paper on top and then buttering the parchment. What is the point of buttering the bottom of the pan? For that ...