However, if your recipe involves broiling or calls for a very high oven temperature, you may want to avoid using a coffee ...

A parchment paper lid forms a semipermeable barrier that allows some evaporation and browning, but not too much.

but you don't have a piping bag on hand -- because you're not a patissier working in a professional bakery -- bust out the parchment paper and you can rig up a pretty good replacement.

please fill out the Parchment Replacement Form. All parchments are printed on security paper with the Simon Fraser University seal and signatures of Chancellor, President, Dean of your Faculty, and ...

If any product could be said to ease the workload for both professional and home bakers, it would have to be parchment paper.