baking

Noun · Adjective
Synonyms: baking hot

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. making bread or cake or pastry etc.
  2. cooking by dry heat in an oven

Adjective (1)

  1. as hot as if in an ovenSynonyms: baking hot
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Baking \Bak"ing\, n.

1.The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold. [1913 Webster]

2.The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread. [1913 Webster]

Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little farinaceous matter. [1913 Webster]

Bake \Bake\ (b[=a]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Baked (b[=a]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Baking.] [AS. bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG. bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baka, Dan. bage, Gr. fw`gein to roast.]

1.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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

2.To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground. [1913 Webster]

3.To harden by cold. [1913 Webster]

The earth . . . is baked with frost.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]
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