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  • 11Baking beans — For the food see Baked Beans.Baking beans are round balls, often ceramic, that are used in the blind baking of pastry instead of peas, beans or rice. When baking the pastry is covered by baking paper and the beans then placed on top of the paper …

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  • 12Baking — Bak ing, n. 1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold. [1913 Webster] 2. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread. [1913 Webster] {Baking powder}, a substitute for yeast, usually… …

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  • 13Baking powder — Baking Bak ing, n. 1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold. [1913 Webster] 2. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread. [1913 Webster] {Baking powder}, a substitute for yeast,… …

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  • 14margarine for baking — margarine which is specially made to cook well in baked foods …

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  • 15baking — 1. adjective a) Intended for use in baking. Here is a baking tray for the cookies. b) Of a person, the weather, or an object, very hot. Im baking could you open the window? 2 …

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  • 16baking powder — noun any of various powdered mixtures used in baking as a substitute for yeast • Hypernyms: ↑leaven, ↑leavening * * * noun [noncount] : a white powder that is used to make baked foods (such as cakes and breads) light and fluffy The recipe calls… …

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  • 17Baking stone — A baking stone is a flat stone that may be used when baking. Food is put on the baking stone, which is then placed in the oven, though sometimes the stone is heated first. Baking stones are used much like cookie sheets, but may absorb additional… …

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  • 18Baking powder — Powder Pow der, n. [OE. poudre, pouldre, F. poudre, OF. also poldre, puldre, L. pulvis, pulveris: cf. pollen fine flour, mill dust, E. pollen. Cf. {Polverine}, {Pulverize}.] 1. The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding …

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  • 19baking soda — Sodium bicarbonate Sodium bicarbonate, a white crystalline substance, {HNaCO3}, with a slight alkaline taste resembling that of sodium carbonate. It is found in many mineral springs and also produced artificially,. It is used in cookery, in… …

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  • 20baking soda — Soda So da, n. [It., soda, in OIt., ashes used in making glass, fr. L. solida, fem. of solidus solid; solida having probably been a name of glasswort. See {Solid}.] 1. (Chem.) (a) Sodium oxide or hydroxide. (b) Popularly, sodium carbonate or… …

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