bake : Idioms & Phrases
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baked alaska
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noun cake covered with ice cream and meringue browned quickly in an oven
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baked egg
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noun egg cooked individually in cream or butter in a small ramekin
shirred egg; egg en cocotte.
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baked goods
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noun foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven
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baked potato
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noun potato that has been cooked by baking it in an oven
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baked-apple berry
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noun creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries
salmonberry; bakeapple; Rubus chamaemorus; dwarf mulberry; cloudberry.
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baking chocolate
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noun pure unsweetened chocolate used in baking and icings and sauces and candy
bitter chocolate; cooking chocolate.
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baking hot
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adjective satellite as hot as if in an oven
baking.
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baking powder
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noun any of various powdered mixtures used in baking as a substitute for yeast
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baking soda
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noun a white soluble compound (NaHCO3) used in effervescent drinks and in baking powders and as an antacid
sodium bicarbonate; saleratus; sodium hydrogen carbonate; bicarbonate of soda.
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baking tray
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noun a cooking utensil consisting of a flat rectangular metal sheet used for baking cookies or biscuits
cookie sheet.
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baking-powder biscuit
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noun leavened with baking powder
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boston baked beans
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noun dried navy beans baked slowly with molasses and salt pork
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dough-baked
Dough"-baked` adjective
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Imperfectly baked; hence, not brought to perfection; unfinished; also, of weak or dull understanding. Colloq. Halliwell.
Webster 1913
half-baked
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adjective satellite foolish; totally unsound
crazy; softheaded; screwball.
- a crazy scheme
- half-baked ideas
- a screwball proposal without a prayer of working
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adjective satellite insufficiently cooked
underdone.
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hard-baked
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adjective satellite baked until hard
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home-baked
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adjective satellite baked at home
- home-baked cakes and pies
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To bake astern
- to go stern foremost.
Webster 1913
twice-baked bread
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noun slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp
rusk; zwieback; Brussels biscuit.