I’ve been using it for so long I don’t recall when I first heard about parchment paper, but I do have a vague recollection of thinking the name conveyed some sort of official, fancy, tied-up ...

Parchment paper is also pretty heat resistant, capable of standing up to oven temperatures as high as 450 degrees. (Any hotter and it has a tendency to turn dark and brittle.) ...

To roll. This is one instance where parchment and wax paper will work equally well. When you need to roll a log of cookie dough or compound butter, spread it in a line close to, ...