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noun

Baking n.

The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread.

Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little farinaceous matter.

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Etymology of 'Baking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Baking" Quotes from Famous Books

... you," she said. "Come in. My mistress is just wearying for you. She never sleeps in daylight, and it is ill-reading and working in the fading light. I will soon have the tea ready. I have been baking some scones." ...

— Doctor Luttrell's First Patient • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... is not so good, but that sometimes I forget my own name: However, for the first dish we had a goodly porker, with a garland upon him, and puddings, goose giblets, lamb-stones, sweetbreads, and gizzards round him; there were also beets and houshold-bread of his own baking, for himself, which I would rather have than white; it makes a man strong, and I never complain of what I like. The next was a cold tart, with excellent warm honey, and that Spanish, running upon it. I eat little of the tart, but more of the honey; I tasted also ...

— The Satyricon • Petronius Arbiter

... hundreds and thousands of common china plates, calling them after me, and baking my saints and my legends in a muffle of to-day; it is blasphemy!" said a stout plate of Gubbio, which in its year of birth had seen the face of ...

— The Nuernberg Stove • Louisa de la Rame (AKA Ouida)

... 21.—Today it has been blowing a gale. I was up soon after seven as it was baking day, but found it was no good attempting to bake as the oven could never be heated with such a wind, so I raked the fire out. Tomorrow we must do without bread. Graham started off early for school, escorting home Mrs. Hagan, who had brought the meat. As they got ...

— Three Years in Tristan da Cunha • K. M. Barrow

... could any of them claim to be her master? It would have been the same as wishing to have the sole right of baking their bread in the common oven, in which the ...

— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume IV (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant

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