bake / ˈbāk
verb to fully cook things by heating in an oven Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bits of comfort food. Sandra Lee, 1966- to cause to dry by exposing to heat The same heat that melts wax, bakes clay. French Proverb to make food by cooking in an oven, especially of sweet treats Baking may be regarded as a science, but it’s the chemistry between the ingredients and the cook that gives desserts life. Baking is done out of love, to share with family and friends, to see them smile. Anna Olson, 1968- to be cooked in an oven Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. Yiddish Proverb to be made extremely hot A rose lay open in full bloom and, looking from my garden room, I watched the sun-baked flower fill with rain. from ‘Home: A Memoir of My Early Years’ by Julie Andrews, 1935- noun a social event during which a certain type of food is prepared and served Brin [clam-chowder] up even incidentally, and all the innumerable factions of the clam bake regions raise their heads and begin to yammer. Louis Pullig De Gouy, 1869-1947