Citations:bake

Verb

 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * And yet here I was perplexed again, for I neither knew how to grind or make meal of my corn, or indeed how to clean it and part it; nor, if made into meal, how to make bread of it; and if how to make it, yet I knew not how to bake it.
 * Then I wanted a mill to grind it, sieves to dress it, yeast and salt to make it into bread, and an oven to bake it; but all these things I did without, as shall be observed; and yet the corn was an inestimable comfort and advantage to me too.
 * These I burned in the fire, as I had done the other, and laid them by; and when I wanted to bake, I made a great fire upon my hearth, which I had paved with some square tiles of my own baking and burning also; but I should not call them square.



Noun

 * 1985, George Bernard, Wayside Sketches: Pen Pictures of Barbadian Life, page 27:
 * She is called upon to eat bakes possessing qualities that were formerly supposed to be peculiar to rubber, [...]


 * 2000, IC3: the Penguin book of new black writing in Britain, page 228:
 * No drinking sweet cocoa tea while eating bakes and saltfish on a Sunday morning. No breadnuts, no yam, no mangoes, no moonlight walks with a warm breeze blowing on his back.


 * 2014, Lolita Hernandez, Making Callaloo in Detroit, page 74:
 * Mummy tried her best to show me how to proportion the ingredients and how to knead everything, but I couldn't ever figure out how she could measure the flour by the handfuls, the baking powder with her three fingers, the salt with two, and exactly how much Crisco to add. [...] Whether I was making roast bake or fry bake they tended to come out hard or underdone or burn up. [...] She would ting up the flour, flough flough and she done. We eating bakes and the whole house filled up with the warmth of them.
 * 2015, Sylvester Carrington, It's Your Word Against Mine: How Words Express the Cultural Traditions:
 * What is [...] misleading about bakes is the fact that they are not even prepared by the baking process. They are [...] deep fried. [...] Bakes are not pancakes. They may strike a slight resemblance to miniature pancakes [...and] the ingredients may be almost similar [... but they are] greasy.