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verb

Bake v. t. (past & past part. baked; pres. part. baking)

To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples. Note: Baking is the term usually applied to that method of cooking which exhausts the moisture in food more than roasting or broiling; but the distinction of meaning between roasting and baking is not always observed.

To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.

To harden by cold. "The earth... is baked with frost." "They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone."

Bake v. i.

To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes.

To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.

noun

Bake n. The process, or result, of baking.

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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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