bundt pan

[Sara]

I got a bundt pan. This is BIG news. lol I have wanted one for the longest time and just never seemed to purchase one. I'm now the proud owner of a bundt pan.

Both my kids love the packaged pre-sliced bundt cake from the grocery store. I can't believe how often I would buy it and now I don't have to anymore. :cool:

[Darlene]

Make a cake yet? I've had mine for a year & haven't used it yet.

[cozyquilter]

Just thougth I would share this, the inventor of the bundt pan was from my area and passed away lst year, just an interesting story...


Bundt pan inventor H. David Dalquist dies
Trudi Hahn, Star Tribune
January 6, 2005 DALQ0106

H. David Dalquist, whose fledgling Scandinavian cookware company developed its most famous product, the Nordic Ware Bundt pan, with Jewish immigrant cooks, died Sunday of heart failure at his home in Edina. He was 86.


The Minneapolis native had worked as a metallurgical engineer for U.S. Steel in Duluth for two years after receiving a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota in the early 1940s. He served in the Navy during World War II as a radar technician aboard a destroyer in the Pacific. After the war, he and his brother, Mark, started a company called Plastics for Industry, said his son, David of Minnetonka. Soon it evolved into Maid of Scandinavia, a specialty cookware company run by Mark, and Northland Aluminum Products, Dave's company, which manufactured Nordic Ware.


About 1950, immigrant Jewish women asked if the company could make a specialty pan that could be found only in Europe. The women tried to explain the pan, used to make a pudding called kugel, by using a word that sounded like "bunt" and meant "a gathering of people," David Dalquist said. And the fluted, cast-aluminum design -- trademarked as a Bundt pan -- was born. When the pan was used in a winning entry in the 1966 Pillsbury Bake-Off, orders soared. In 1970, the Bundt name was licensed to Pillsbury for a line of cake mixes that fit the pan. Said his son, "My dad believed the common person could do great things if you give them a chance," and that included keeping his factory in the heart of a U.S. metropolitan area instead of moving it to a foreign country. Dalquist helped develop thermoset plastic molding technology to make products to use in microwave ovens. "He was very good at recognizing product niches, and what the consumer was looking for," said Gene Karlson, a company vice president. Dalquist became involved in environmental-quality issues and served as rear commodore for 29 years for the Great Lakes Cruising Club, the largest yachting association in the world. In addition to his son David, survivors include his wife, Dorothy Margerite Staugaard Dalquist; daughters, Linda Jeffrey of Medina; Corrine Lynch, of Eden Prairie, and Susan Brust, of Dellwood and 12 grandchildren.

[Sara]

How weird. I just read that he passed away too.

Darlene, I haven't made a cake yet. Very soon though. I'm thinking lemon for my first or cinnamon. :)

[Michelle]

Lemon poppy seed would be delicious with a thin icing :)