What is "hard-baked"

Usage examples of "hard-baked".

It wasn't random, of course, but a kind of encryption that's hard to crack or feign, based on a partial copy of Albert's personal Soul Standing Wave that Blane keeps secure in a hard-baked ceramium -- a kind of cypher key that can be used many times.

It contained one small hard-baked bean, and whoever got the bean was, possibly after some dental attention, hailed as King.

With thousands of square miles of ranges spread out over three counties, mostly desolate hills and dry lake beds, hundreds of men (and now women) per year streak over the high desert and mountains, line up on plywood tanks or airfields scratched into the hard-baked earth by bulldozers, and drop thousands of tons of live bombs, rockets, missiles, and cannon rounds.

It didn't look impressive, an old flask of hard-baked clay with its hollow handle bent over and returning inside-merely a Klein bottle, with Solomon's seal in red wax at the mouth.

Gong Su stretched it by stewing, with the addition of some aromatics which he had gathered, and Temeraire made a better meal than the men, who had to make do with a sort of hastily cooked porridge, and hard-baked bread.