What is "home-baked"

Usage examples of "home-baked".

She had stopped whenever she felt so inclinedat farmers' markets, garage sales and antique shopsand when she stopped for the night, at a motel near Thurmont, Maryland, it would have been hard to say what pleased her more: the basketful of home-baked pastries, country ham and cheese she planned to devour while she reclined on the bed and watched something utterly mindless on TV, or the fact that no one on the face of the earth knew where she was.

At a long trestle table there were at least four dozen people, passing platters of corn on the cob and dishes of home-baked beans - pea beans, soldier beans, red kidney beans.

Home-baked bread, apple pie, cole slaw, pickled eggs dyed red with beet juicepart of the seven sweets and seven sours that are considered necessary to any Pennsylvania Dutch mealfried chicken and cream gravy, mashed potatoes, noodles that had never seen a pasta machineI ate till my eyes, and other parts of my anatomy, bulged.

He handed round the snake venom detection kits and his home-baked fairy cakes and retreated back to his desk, where he beamed at us cheerfully from behind his curly beard and bow tie.

Lazarus had drunk much coffee thick with cream and sugar and had eaten a hefty slice of home-baked white cake with chocolate icing, then accepted a second while admitting that he had not eaten since breakfast then protested when Maureen wanted to jump up and cook.