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▪ I. baking, vbl. n.|ˈbeɪkɪŋ|
[f. bake v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb bake; the process of preparing bread; the hardening or ‘firing’ of earthenware. Also spec. in Typogr. (see quot.). Cf. baked ppl. a. 3 b.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. lxvii. (1495) 643 Brede is made of mele by medlynge of water and bakyng of fyre. 1477Norton Ord. Alch. v. (Ashm. 1652) 55 In Bakinge, and Brewinge, and other Crafts all. 1622Heylin Cosmogr. in Sir T. Blount Nat Hist. (1693) 138 The Boyling and Baking of Sugar. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing II. xxii. 257 This sticking together of the Letter is call'd Baking of the Letter. 1847Kinglake Eothen xvii, Principles of bread-baking..sanctioned by the experience of ages. 1868J. Marryat Pottery Gloss. s.v. Kiln, The only colours..which will endure the extreme heat of the first baking.
2. The product of this action; the bread baked at a time, a batch.
c1440Promp. Parv. 21/2 Bakynge (or bahche), pistura. 1598Florio, Fornata, an ouen full, or a batche of bread, a baking. 1860C. M. Yonge Stokesley Secret xiii. (1880) 306 Susan with..her plate of bakings.
3. Comb. and attrib., as baking craft, baking-dish, baking hours, baking-house, baking-iron, baking-oven, baking-plate, baking-soda (cf. soda1 1 b), baking-tin; baking-powder, a powder used in baking as a substitute for yeast, through the effervescence of which carbonic acid is diffused through the dough., orig. U.S.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. lxvii. (1495) 643 By *bakynge crafte brede is made.
1856Dickens Dorrit i. v. 39 Preparing a *baking-dish of beef and pudding.
1863Scotsman 16 Mar., To enter bakehouses during *baking hours.
c1440Promp. Parv. 21/2 *Bakynge howse, panificium.
1884Health Exhib. Catal. 120/2 Patent Hot-Air Continuous Baking Oven, with Travelling Baking Plate.
1601Holland Pliny I. 567 Plautus..maketh mention of..a *baking pan.
1563Thersites in Old Plays (1848) 41 The backster of Balockburye with her *baking pele.
1884Baking plate [see baking oven above].
1850Family Friend III. App. 2/1 Chemical analyses of two of the *baking powders in most general use. 1861Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxxv. 856, 2 teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. 1909Westm. Gaz. 1 June 7/4 Baking-powder beer.
1845E. Acton Mod. Cookery xvi. 425 When the mixture has simmered..pour it out upon a delicately clean baking-tin. 1959A. Wesker Roots ii. i. 49 Mother, where's the bakin' tin?
▪ II. ˈbaking, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That bakes; hot enough to bake. Hence bakingly adv.
1786Washington Diaries 9 May (1925) III. 58 The ground, by the heavy rains..and baking Winds since, had got immensely hard. 1865F. Parkman Champlain ix. (1875) 302 The fierce sun fell on the bald, baking rock. 1882Russell in Macm. Mag. XLVI. 331/1 Under the ‘baking sun.’ 1867R. Broughton Not Wisely I. 18 Too bakingly hot for a long walk. 1880J. Fothergill Wellfields i. iii, The sun shone bakingly upon the round stones. 1934‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days xi. 170 It's getting beastly hot, isn't it?.. Isn't it simply baking! |