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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
baking
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
baking powder
baking sheet
baking soda
baking tray
scorching/baking/roasting hot (also boiling/broiling hot American English) (= used about weather that is very hot)
▪ a scorching hot week in August
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
powder
▪ Mix equal parts of baking powder and water and pat on the sunburnt areas.
▪ Stir the flour, suet, cinnamon and baking powder together then mix in the liquid to bind.
▪ Fold in flour and baking powder then add enough milk for mixture to have a soft dropping consistency.
▪ Combine oats, milk powder and baking powder together.
▪ The alkaline baking powder causes the cocaine to separate and, since the base is insoluble, it sinks to the bottom.
sheet
▪ Season to taste. 4 Brush an edged baking sheet with the remaining butter.
▪ Remember that baking shapes need to be placed on a greaseproof-lined baking sheet before filling.
▪ Cover the entire surface with your chosen filling and transfer to an oiled baking sheet.
▪ Lift the plait on to a greased baking sheet with a fish slice.
▪ Pour on to a greased baking sheet and leave to set.
▪ Brush aubergines with half a tablespoon of the olive oil and place on an oiled baking sheet.
▪ Return to the lined baking sheet.
▪ Place the dough on greased baking sheets, raising the edges of each piece slightly to contain the topping. 5.
tray
▪ Divide the cake mixture between the cans and place on a greased baking tray.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Combi-steaming is used for combi-roasting, glazing, baking au gratin, combi-baking and for forced steaming at 110-125°C.
▪ It has been used in baking and brewing ever since primitive man became domesticated.
II.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He began producing his own flour, carrying on his baking business to 1855.
▪ Henry carried on the milling and baking side, Thomas was the corn dealer and Edward the dairy man and grocer.
▪ Press out the excess moisture, season, and line a baking dish with the spinach.
▪ Score a cross in the top of eight to 12 cherry tomatoes and place on a baking sheet.
▪ Sift flour, baking powder, salt and spices into a large bowl.
▪ Spread this mixture on to the whole mushrooms and arrange them on a baking sheet or in a fireproof dish.
▪ This will make it easier to lift the assembled pizza on to the baking stone.
▪ You may prefer to ask an older person to do this for you. 8 Place the baking tray into the oven.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Baking

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.

    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.

Baking

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.

Wiktionary
baking
  1. 1 Intended for use in baking. 2 (context figuratively English) Of a person, the weather, or an object, very hot. n. An action in which something is baked v

  2. (present participle of bake English)

WordNet
baking

adj. as hot as if in an oven [syn: baking hot]

baking
  1. n. making bread or cake or pastry etc.

  2. cooking by dry heat in an oven

Wikipedia
Baking

Anders Zorn - Bread baking (1889) Baking is a method of cooking food that uses prolonged dry heat, normally in an oven, but also in hot ashes, or on hot stones. The most common baked item is bread but many other types of foods are baked. Heat is gradually transferred "from the surface of cakes, cookies, and breads to their centre. As heat travels through it transforms batters and doughs into baked goods with a firm dry crust and a softer centre". Baking can be combined with grilling to produce a hybrid barbecue variant by using both methods simultaneously, or one after the other. Baking is related to barbecuing because the concept of the masonry oven is similar to that of a smoke pit.

Because of historical social and familial roles, baking has traditionally been performed at home by women for domestic consumption and by men in bakeries and restaurants for local consumption. When production was industrialized, baking was automated by machines in large factories. The art of baking remains a fundamental skill and is important for nutrition, as baked goods, especially breads, are a common but important food, both from an economic and cultural point of view. A person who prepares baked goods as a profession is called a baker.

Baking (make-up)

Baking (verb), also known as 'cooking' is a make-up technique originally used in Drag, now popularised by RuPaul's Drag Race, celebrities and make-up artists. This technique includes applying a heavy amount of translucent powder under the eyes and on the high points of the face to set the base make-up.

This technique can be used on a variety of different skin types and shades. To highlight the under eye area and high points of the face such as the cheek bones, the bridge of the nose, the chin and the forehead. The effects of the powder are to soak up facial oils and to help the foundation melt into the skin. This prevents creasing in the baked areas while maximising coverage and longevity of the make-up to leave the face looking matte.

Usage examples of "baking".

The scene I cannot describe--I should faint if I tried it, for there is madness in a room full of classified charnel things, with blood and lesser human debris almost ankle-deep on the slimy floor, and with hideous reptilian abnormalities sprouting, bubbling, and baking over a winking bluish-green spectre of dim flame in a far corner of black shadows.

Its tuberous root has been found to contain a particular volatile acrid principle which exercises distinct medicinal effects, though these are altogether dissipated if the roots are subjected to heat by boiling or baking.

So he went to his place and fell asleep and slept long, while the women went down to acre and meadow, or saw to the baking of bread or the sewing of garments, or went far afield to tend the neat and the sheep.

He had just taken a bandicoot from the hole in the earth in which it had been baking, and was tearing its limbs asunder, reserving the choicest portions for his mistress and himself, while he threw to Unda the least savoury morsels.

There, in that moribund, ancient town, wrapped in its siesta, flagellated with heat, deserted, ignored, baking in a noon-day silence, these two strange men, the one a poet by nature, the other by training, both out of tune with their world, dreamers, introspective, morbid, lost and unfamiliar at that end-of-the-century time, searching for a sign, groping and baffled amidst the perplexing obscurity of the Delusion, sat over empty wine glasses, silent with the pervading silence that surrounded them, hearing only the cooing of doves and the drone of bees, the quiet so profound, that at length they could plainly distinguish at intervals the puffing and coughing of a locomotive switching cars in the station yard of Bonneville.

Hecate Brinstone had revealed a talent for baking bread, and her braided challahs, marzipan-filled stollens and crusty ciabattas had emerged from the depths of the range, causing Marie Bain to mutter bitterly into her soiled handkerchief as she ostentatiously buttered herself a stale slice of shop-bought white.

In the dark of night, the coughers were led from their hideout two at a time, and hustled to the makeshift sauna to spend an hour baking.

It felt crisp in my hands, even after lying hidden all those dateless winters with the furnace clanking off and on and sending heat through the pipes and baking and rebaking it.

Meth is speed and it is made by cooking asthma medicine called ephedrine, formaldehyde, sometimes gas or fertilizer, and baking powder.

Sprigg was a young assistant government geologist for the state of South Australia when he was sent to make a survey of abandoned mines in the Ediacaran Hills of the Flinders Range, an expanse of baking outback some three hundred miles north of Adelaide.

Making freebase with baking soda was so easy that even a child could do it.

Vio Furo, but the smell of baking bread put everything from her mind but her hunger.

Pari Street and the Vio Furo, but the smell of baking bread put everything from her mind but her hunger.

Garlic, spices, simmering sauces, frying meats, baking breads and cakes and gnocchi e canditti.

There were ruffled grouse, angrily complaining about things, godwits making profane jokes, sandpipers playing little fifes on the beach, black rails lying in parallel rows on the ground, oven birds doing the morning baking, mourning doves sobbing uncontrollably, goshawks staring with amazement, a crane hauling up loads of stones, and several big old red barn owls filled with hay.