What can I use if I don't have a bread pan??? :(

[chelseamummy]

Don't have a bread pan and have already made the dough! What do I put it in now, any ideas? Not sure how to shape it and just plop it on a baking tray?

Yes, you could shape it in a ball or whatever and plop on tray. Jamie Oliver uses a flowerpot in one of his books - depends what shape you want it!

You could roll it out like pastry, then roll up like a swiss roll to make a french stick shape.

Otherwise do what I did last night and shape it into a roughly circular lump and whack it on a baking tray/pizza dish.

Slash several cuts into the dough diagonally with the blade at an angle for that artlessly rustic effect... hope it goes well!

Oh is that how you do a French stick lovecat? Mine are always thicker at one end than the other!

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That's how I've been told you do it, Katy... seems to work for my friend who makes her own bread (I'm a late starter, only made my first ever loaf last night!)

Kathy, sorry. Can't read. Given that I'm a Cathy myself, you'd think I'd have got it right, wouldn't you?