baking : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: baking	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
baking adj as hot as if in an oven Synonym(s): baking, baking hot n making bread or cake or pastry etc. cooking by dry heat in an oven
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Baking \Bak"ing\, n. 1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold. 2. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bake \Bake\ (b[amac]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Baked} (b[amac]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Baking}.] [AS. bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG. bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baca, Dan. bage, Gr. [?] 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. 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. 2. To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground. 3. To harden by cold. The earth . . . is baked with frost. --Shak. They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone. --Spenser.