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Bake   /beɪk/   Listen
Bake

verb
(past & past part. baked; pres. part. baking)
1.
Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
2.
Prepare with dry heat in an oven.
3.
Heat by a natural force.  Synonym: broil.
4.
Be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun.  Synonym: broil.  "The tourists were baking in the heat"



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"Bake" Quotes from Famous Books



... faggots ready for lighting, so with the aid of my tinder-box I soon had a cheerful blaze. Taking a large handful of flour from the nearest bag I moistened it with water from a pitcher, and having rolled it out into a flat cake, proceeded to bake it, smiling the while to think of what my mother would say to such rough cookery. Very sure I am that Patrick Lamb himself, whose book, the 'Complete Court Cook,' was ever in the dear soul's left hand while she stirred ...
— Micah Clarke - His Statement as made to his three Grandchildren Joseph, - Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 • Arthur Conan Doyle

... one-half in the bottom of a baking dish or granite platter, break in from four to six fresh eggs, cover with the other half of the sauce, dust the top with grated cheese, and bake in a moderate oven until "set," about fifteen or twenty minutes. Serve for supper in the ...
— Many Ways for Cooking Eggs • Mrs. S.T. Rorer

... rats they pass owd Mat's, An' ran dahn to the station; Owd Betty Bake an' Sally Shacks Were both ...
— Revised Edition of Poems • William Wright

... your advertisement for a cook in to-day's Times, I beg to offer myself for your place. I am a thorough cook. I can make clear soups, entrees, jellies, and all kinds of made dishes. I can bake, and am also used to a dairy. My wages are $4 per week, and I can give good reference from my last place, in which I lived for two years. I am thirty-three ...
— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

... kindled, in which stones were heated red hot. When ready these were spread out on the ground, and a thick coating of leaves strewn over them to slack the heat. On this "lovo," or oven, the bodies were then placed, covered over, and left to bake. ...
— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne


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