bake
- to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.
- to harden by heat: to bake pottery in a kiln.
- to dry by, or subject to heat: The sun baked the land.
- to bake bread, a casserole, etc.
- to become baked: The cake will bake in about half an hour.
- to be subjected to heat: The lizard baked on the hot rocks.
- a social occasion at which the chief food is baked.
- Scot. cracker(def 1).
- bake in/into,
- Computers.to incorporate (a feature) as part of a system or piece of software or hardware while it is still in development: The location-tracking service is baked in the new app. Security features come baked into the operating system.
- to include as an inseparable or permanent part: Baked into the price of the product is the cost of advertising.
Origin of bake
Related Words for baking
blistering, red-hot, scorching, searing, sizzling, boiling, sweltering, steaming, scalding, broiling, roasting, burning, ardent, fiery, hot, sultryExamples from the Web for baking
Contemporary Examples of baking
Divide batter into prepared ramekins, place ramekins on a baking sheet, and bake about 20 minutes.
Place the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt on parchment or wax paper.
Cover crust with parchment paper and pour in baking beans or weights.
The tradition of baking of Stollen is probably the strongest in Dresden, Germany.
Meanwhile, sift the flour, baking soda, and salt into a medium bowl.
Historical Examples of baking
Sift the baking powder and spices with the flour and add these.
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What may be said of the handling of pastry in its preparation for baking?
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The temperature of the oven is important in baking potatoes.
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Care should be exercised in their baking to prevent them from burning.
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(b) How should baking powder be combined with the other ingredients?
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baking
- the process of cooking bread, cakes, etc
- (as modifier)a baking dish
- the bread, cakes, etc, cooked at one time
- (esp of weather) very hot and dry
bake
- (tr) to cook by dry heat in or as if in an oven
- (intr) to cook bread, pastry, etc, in an oven
- to make or become hardened by heat
- (intr) informal to be extremely hot, as in the heat of the sun
- US a party at which the main dish is baked
- a batch of things baked at one time
- Scot a kind of biscuit
- Caribbean a small flat fried cake
Word Origin for bake
Word Origin and History for baking
bake
Old English bacan "to bake," from Proto-Germanic *bakanan (cf. Old Norse baka, Middle Dutch backen, Old High German bahhan, German backen), from PIE *bheg- "to warm, roast, bake" (cf. Greek phogein "to roast"), from root *bhe- "to warm" (see bath). Related: Baked (Middle English had baken); baking. Baked beans attested by 1803.
bake
"social gathering at which baked food is served," 1846, American English, from bake (v.).