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1. A baking pan and insert in combination, the combination comprising:
a baking pan having a base and a perimeter wall defining a volume; and a cruciform insert, said insert comprising:
at least two wings, each of said wings being a generally flat parallelepiped with a thickness, two edges of a major dimension, two edges of a minor dimension, rounded corners connecting each of said edges of said major dimension to both said edges of said minor dimension and having a slot extending from one of said edges of said major dimension, completely through said thickness, to a distance about half of said minor dimension;wherein at least two of said at least two wings cross generally perpendicularly by inserting said slot of a first of said at least two of said at least two wings into said slot of a second of said at least two of said at least two wings to form a halved joint; wherein, said insert rests on and is not integral with said base of said baking pan in a manner so that one of said two edges of said major dimension of each of said wings is in contact with said base; and wherein, at least a portion of each of said two edges of said minor dimension of each of said at least two wings is within said volume and not in contact with said perimeter wall. |