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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

... rigorous laws. But let our correspondence end, 'Twill much oblige your humble friend; As I've no gift for writing letters, A friendly call would suit much better. Appoint a day, and I'll prepare, I'll sweep my hearth, and comb my hair; I'll make the best of humble means, Bake pies and puddings, pork and beans; I'll dress in neat, but coarse attire, And in my parlor build a fire. Sir, I reside in Ruralville, Southeast of Bluff, a craggy hill; A broad majestic stream rolls by, Whose crystal surface charms the eye. If you still wish to win a bride, Come where the farmers' ...

— The Snow-Drop • Sarah S. Mower

... how I wish the wind would blow, So that the Miller's mill might go, And grind me flour so fine, to make My good light bread and good sweet cake! But how to bake I do not know Without the flour as white ...

— Mother Stories • Maud Lindsay

... and every imaginable thing that is ever made in porcelain. Then we went down-stairs, through the dark rooms, into where the tall chimneys are. Then I found out they called them kilns. They have at the bottom a prodigious furnace, over that a tremendous oven, where they put the dishes in to bake. ...

— Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls • Anonymous

... eat, drink, and be merry. St. Burchard's day, on account of the fermentation of the new must. St. Martin's, probably on account of the fermentation of the new wine: then we roast fat geese, and all the world enjoy themselves. At Easter we bake pancakes (fladen); at Whitsuntide we make bowers of green boughs, and keep the feast of the tabernacle in Saxony and Thuringia; and we drink, Whitsun-beer for eight days. In Saxony, we also keep the feast of St. Panthalion with drinking and eating ...

— Notes & Queries,No. 31., Saturday, June 1, 1850 • Various

... Thorogood surveyed the harbour with an expressionless countenance. "I consider that having donned these unsavoury garments—did Janet bake them thoroughly, by the way?—I have already forfeited my self-respect quite sufficiently. How much of the circuit have ...

— A Tall Ship - On Other Naval Occasions • Sir Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie

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