Citations:baking


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * Besides this barley, there were, as above, twenty or thirty stalks of rice, which I preserved with the same care and for the same use, or to the same purpose—to make me bread, or rather food; for I found ways to cook it without baking, though I did that also after some time.
 * The baking part was the next thing to be considered, and how I should make bread when I came to have corn; for first, I had no yeast.
 * 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.
 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Here, the flickering of the blaze showed preparations for a cosy dinner, with hot plates baking through and through before the fire, and deep red curtains, ready to be drawn to shut out cold and darkness.