Baking
['beɪkɪŋ] or ['bekɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) cooking by dry heat in an oven.
(noun.) making bread or cake or pastry etc..
(adj.) as hot as if in an oven .
Typed by Abe--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bake
(n.) The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.
(n.) The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread.
Typed by Aileen
Unserious Contents or Definition
Baking is unpropitious for a woman. Ill health and the care of many children; meanness and poverty of supporters are indicated.
Editor: Melinda
Examples
- The rails were insulated from the ties by giving them two coats of japan, baking them in the oven, and then placing them on pads of tar-impregnated muslin laid on the ties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The apples themselves are the very finest sort for baking, beyond a doubt; all from Donwellsome of Mr. Knightley's most liberal supply. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Many housewives look askance at ready-made baking powders and prefer to bake with soda and sour milk, soda and buttermilk, or soda and cream of tartar. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The raising of dough by means of baking soda--bicarbonate of soda--is a very simple process. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It is best to keep your baking powder in a well-stopped jar or bottle. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Hannah was baking. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- There is furnished also a reflector which is so designed that it serves equally well as a cover for either dish and makes a very choice griddle for baking hot cakes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- For this reason, many states have prohibited the use of alum in baking powders. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The application of oil colours and designs to ware before baking by the bat system of printing originated in the eighteenth and was perfected in the nineteenth century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- As the essential ingredients of the best baking powder are baking soda and cream of tartar we need only be careful in buying of honest grocers or druggists who will guarantee their purity. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Baking soda is formed from the reaction. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It was both baking and ironing day at the rectory, she remembered--Fanny would be busy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Cream of tartar contains sufficient acid to act on baking soda, and is a convenient and safe ingredient for baking powder. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Jo moves on, through the long vacation, down to Blackfriars Bridge, where he finds a baking stony corner wherein to settle to his repast. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The baking soda is then heated and decomposed into washing soda or the soda of commerce. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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