(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
(v. t.) To harden by cold.
(v. i.) To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes.
(v. i.) To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.
(n.) The process, or result, of baking.
Example Sentences:
(1) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
(2) In books, Doctor Who and The Great British Bake Off were named as "standout" sales performers.
(3) The Great British Bake Off presenter is hardly a controversial figure.
(4) Fold the edges of the baking parchment down over the rim of the basin.
(5) Place on a large baking tray and fold over the edges to give a 1cm pastry border.
(6) On the programme, the bakes begin to become divorced from their function as food; they become symbols, like the cardboard cakes that were sometimes used at British weddings during the war when shortages ruled out the real thing.
(7) When it comes to Donald Trump, the cake is baked, and almost everything that happens – negative or positive – only serves to reinforce existing perceptions of the candidates.
(8) The shadow justice secretary, Sadiq Khan, said the three letters were evidence that those who really know and understand the probation services were warning the government that their plans were not only half-baked but were being rushed through at breakneck speed.
(9) It is up against Broadchurch, Doctor Who: Day of the Doctor, Educating Yorkshire, Gogglebox and The Great British Bake Off in this category.
(10) Today The Great British Bake Off (BBC1), inspired – for no special reason – by Gogglebox, which seems to have two new sofa critics.
(11) BBC2 will remain "broad and popular", tasked with finding "the next British Bake Off as well as the next series like the Story of the Jews".
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest This year’s Great British Bake Off semi-finalists: (clockwise from top left) Nadiya Hussain, Tamal Ray, Flora Shedden and Ian Cumming.
(14) A Staphylococcus strain was inoculated on the top and cut surfaces of freshly baked Southern custard pies which were then packaged in a pasteboard carton and held at 30 C. Daily plate counts of surface sections 0.3 inch (0.76 cm) in thickness were made.
(15) Technically, it can replace fat in a wide variety of foods and can be used to make cooked, baked, and fried foods lower in fat and calories.
(16) "I am an old lady, and have many grandchildren," she says, pointing to the gaunt, grubby faces baking around her in the tent.
(17) But one has a right to demand what purpose it fulfils," wrote the Times's critic, who felt that Bond's "blockishly naturalistic piece, full of dead domestic longueurs and slavishly literal bawdry", would "supply valuable ammunition to those who attack modern drama as half-baked, gratuitously violent and squalid".
(18) Place on a tray lined with parchment and bake for 10–12 minutes, then drizzle with syrup.
(19) Ruby Tandoh faced online abuse during her appearances on The Great British Bake Off – and now the 21-year-old philosophy student has been set up for a fresh mauling by the Daily Mail .
(20) Davis had earlier declined the privilege of specifying his final supper, so instead was given the institution's choice of grilled cheeseburgers, oven browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape beverage.
Dough
Definition:
(n.) Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.
(n.) Anything of the consistency of such paste.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3 Tip the dough on to a clean work surface and knead well.
(2) 3 For the dough: melt the lard with 100ml water in a small pan and leave to cool slightly.
(3) "), and the Scousers ("Dey do dough, don't dey dough?").
(4) Transfer the dough to a clean work surface, punch out some of the air, then roll into a 30cm-long sausage.
(5) Tip out the risen dough onto a lightly floured worktop and punch down (knock back) to deflate.
(6) Keep kneading until the dough no longer sticks to the board.
(7) For these palmiers, however, – full of chocolate and honey – I've found the rolling method is best for keeping the filling contained in the swirls of dough and stopping it from seeping across the baking tray.
(8) The key difference is in the role of the tourier who rolls the dough out on their chilled marble slabs or tours .
(9) 4 Spread the filling over the dough in a thin layer then roll the dough into a cylinder from the longest side.
(10) When dividing the dough into pieces, you can weigh them to be sure they are all about the same.
(11) Increase the speed to medium-high and work the dough for 10 minutes more, until smooth and elastic.
(12) They don't even get to go home for a sleep because dough requires contant prodding, waiting, more prodding and worrying.
(13) Pull the dough around the filling and pinch it together at the top, then work around the edges.
(14) Singles Day in China was invented by students in the 1990s as Bachelors’ Day – a day to meet prospective partners and hang out with single friends eating deep-fried dough sticks representing the four ones in 11.11 or steamed buns which represent the dot.
(15) Add to the dough and gently incorporate by hand, mixing the cheese and jelly evenly into the dough.
(16) Roll out the dough into a rectangle, says the recipe.
(17) The sedimentation and consistency of the mixtures differed from those of the white corn flour, but without altering the capacity of dough formation to prepare arepas.
(18) The predominance of S. exiguus, its vigor in the particular acidic environment of the sour dough, and the correlation of its numbers with the leavening function constitute strong evidence on the role of this organism in the sour dough system.
(19) The antimicrobial effects of the different processes involved in the preparation of fermented maize dough porridge were assessed.
(20) Traditional fermented foods from most countries of the world may be classified into the following categories: fungal fermentation followed by brining, SSF principally using bacteria, lactic acid fermentation followed by fungal fermentation, production of fermented doughs, alcoholic fermentation, and fermented food ingredients.