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The Pullman loaf, sometimes called the "sandwich loaf" or "pan bread", is a rectangular loaf of white bread baked in a long, narrow, lidded pan. The French term for this style of loaf is pain de mie , or, less commonly, pain anglais .
In Arabic, the word "pullman" is used to refer to a coach bus in Syria. In Arabic, it would be spelled "بولمان". In Latin America, pullman may refer to a luxury bus as well as to a railroad sleeping car. A Pullman loaf is a type of long, square bread originally developed to be baked in the small kitchens of Pullman rail cars.
Workers leave the Pullman Palace Car Works in 1893. The Pullman Company, [1] founded by George Pullman, was a manufacturer of railroad cars in the mid-to-late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the United States.
Share of the Pullman's Palace Car Company, issued April 20, 1892, made out to George M. Pullman. Pullman developed a railroad sleeping car, the Pullman sleeper or "palace car". These were designed after the packet boats that travelled the Erie Canal of his youth in Albion. The first one was finished in 1864.
The “town” was founded by George Pullman to house workers at his now-defunct Pullman Palace Car Co., which made luxurious rail cars. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Of the 12,000 porters and waiters then working for Pullman, only 362 turned out to be named George. [1] At its peak, the society claimed to have 31,000 members, including King George V of the United Kingdom, American baseball player George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Georgia Senator Walter F. George and French politician Georges Clemenceau. [2] [3]: 51 [4]
Mix and match the different breads from the list below, but just make sure you dry the bread for stuffing (or use stale bread) for the best results. Get more helpful Thanksgiving cooking tips:
The last car of the order, a sleeper delivered in July 1981, was also the last car ever built by Pullman, and was named in honor of the company's founder, George Mortimer Pullman. [5] In the mid-1980s, Canada's Via Rail contemplated replacing its aging Budd-built steam-heated cars with Superliners.