Gem pan ID help

Ty L.

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Hi everyone!

I picked this up earlier today and I haven't been able to figure out who made it or how old it is. I figured the 1's on the bottom rotated 45 degrees would be unique enough to easily figure out who made it but so far I haven't found anything. There are no markings on the bottom other than the two number 1's. Nothing in the Red Book or on Google. I also tried looking through older ID help threads on this site but no luck there either. This pan has me stumped.

Anyone know who made this pan and when?

Thanks!
 

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Markings and design are not distinctive enough to attribute to a particular known maker. 6 and 12 cup turk's head pans were widely copied.
 
I only know of having cornbread and little cakes made in them. could actually cook anything you wanted too them cakes, muffins, biscuits, etc.
 
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I have a very similar Turk head gem pan. No markings. This site has a pretty good gallery of them on file so you might be able to match up by checking there.

I remember as a wee lad having corn bread made in a turkshead with cane syrup over top.
 
As these are fancy, I suspect they were used for making sweet things like muffins and corn cakes. Things one could pour a syrup over or break and butter. They would lend themselves to batter recipes, but not dough recipes or popover recipes.

Hilditch
 
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