BROWN BAGTM
Shortbread Pans
Afternoon Tea …and SHORTBREAD!
Tea and beautiful, delectable, delicious Shortbread. How very civilized! For years, Brown Bag Designs has been making extraordinary ceramic pans in which to bake the prettiest shortbread ever. They are classics. And people all over have been eating the delicate buttery cookies with tea for just as many years. I decided it was high time to design a pan that celebrated this personal ritual.
This year I am pleased to introduce our new Shortbread Pan for 2008, TeaTime. This octagonal high-fired ceramic pan produces 8 cookies, each decorated with a different teacup or teapot. Like all of our pans, it is easy to use. You bake the shortbread right in the pan then turn out decorative treats. And like all of the pans, TeaTime comes in a gift box and with detailed instructions and recipes. The pans are made in America.
Check our “Find A Store” page. It lists our retailers, state by state. Many have websites of there own, so if you don’t find a store nearby, you can always have something sent to you.
I have also designed a very special new cookie mold this year to benefit Heifer International. This wonderful organization was founded in 1944 with the mission of ending hunger and poverty while caring for the earth. Rather than just supplying food, Heifer International gives families in need livestock and training in sustainable environmentally sound agriculture. Each family is then required to “pass it on”, by giving one or more offspring from their family’s Heifer animal to another family. And on it goes. This is a long term solution that fosters dignity and self reliance.
We can be part of the solution. When you buy one of the special Heifer and Friends cookie molds, Brown Bag will donate $12.00 from the sale of each mold sold over this site to Heifer International. This durable high-fired mold depicts a cow and three other friendly animals all together. Each comes with a recipe and instruction booklet tied on with a real satin ribbon, and with a letter about the mold’s significance.
The molds cost $19.95 each, are made in America and will be available only between now and December 31, 2008. To purchase one right from this site, click on the Heifer and Friends image or link on the side bar of this Home Page.
The goal is to make a difference in as many lives as possible, family by family, cookie by cookie, all of us together.
Very best wishes,
Lucy Natkiel