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THE
BUNDT PAN
The aluminum Bundt pan was invented in 1950, by H.
David Dalquist, founder of Nordic Ware Bundt Pans,
at the request of members of the Minneapolis Center
of the Hadassah Society.
They
were interested in a pan that could be used to make
kugel, a Jewish dessert. They had old ceramic cake
pans of fairly comparable designs but wanted
aluminum one.
Dalquist formed a new shape and added regular folds
to make it easier to cut the cake. The women from
the society called the pans "bund pans" because
"bund" is German for a assembly of people. Dalquist
added a "t" to the end of "bund" and trademarked the
name.
For years, the company sold only some of the pans.
Then in 1996, a Texas woman won second place in the
Pillsbury Bake-Off for her Tunnel of Fudge Cake
prepared in a Bundt pan. The win prompted a
countrywide rush for the pan. Pillsbury licensed the
name in 1970 for a line of cake mixes.
When H. David Dalquist died on January 6, 2005, the
company had sold more than 50 million Bundt pans. It
is the top-selling cake pan in the world. |