baking
 烘焙,一次烘焙的量


 Bake v. t. [imp. & p. p. Baked p. pr. & vb. n. Baking.]
 1. 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.
 Note: ☞ Baking is the term usually applied to that method of cooking which exhausts the moisture in food more than roasting or broiling; but the distinction of meaning between roasting and baking is not always observed.
 2. To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
 3. To harden by cold.
    The earth . . . is baked with frost.   --Shak.
    They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.   --Spenser.


 Bak·ing, n.
 1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.
 2. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread.
 Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little farinaceous matter.

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 baking
      adj : as hot as if in an oven [syn: baking hot]
      n 1: making bread or cake or pastry etc.
      2: cooking by dry heat in an oven