Casserole BasketsAmish Hand Woven Hot Dish Carriers

The Large Casserole Basket is a low rectangle of rattan reed handwoven over a wood bottom, 17 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches and 3 inches tall outside, about 17 x 11 inside, with a leather loop handle riveted through the weave at each end. A 9 x 13 baking dish sets down into it and, if the dish has built-in handles, rests them on the rim; the loops carry the whole thing from the oven to the car to the potluck table, and it serves from the basket when it gets there.

An Old Order Amish family weaves it on the Iowa-Missouri border and signs the bottom. It comes in Plain, Wine & Blue or Wine & Green trim, with a hand-sewn cloth liner, an engraved brass plate and protective feet optional, and it carries our lifetime guarantee, free shipping, and no-questions returns.

Off casserole duty it is a serving tray for the bread and the butter, a tray for the coffee things, or the basket the mail lands in by the door. For pies rather than casseroles, the pie carriers stack one, two or three pies under a lid; for rolls kept warm, the bread warming baskets add a microwave pad. The rest of the kitchen pieces, the lazy susans, the recipe box and the napkin basket, are on the kitchen baskets page.