baked, ppl. a.
(beɪkt)
[pa. pple. of bake: see -ed; for earlier forms see baken.]
1. a. Cooked by dry heat.
| 1611 Bible 1 Chron. xxiii. 29 That which is baked in the panne. 1620 Venner Via Recta vii. 111 Baked Peares are much wholesomer then raw. 1836 Dickens in Bell's Life in London 17 Jan. 1/1 The baked-'tatur man has departed. 1875 Chamb. Jrnl. No. 133. 66 The baked-potato men are doing a good trade. |
b. baked beans, haricot beans so cooked (now a popular tinned food, prepared in tomato sauce).
| 1832 L. M. Child Frugal Housewife 51 Baked beans are a very simple dish, yet few cook them well. 1873 ‘Susan Coolidge’ What Katy Did iv. 42 A breakfast of baked beans. 1920 F. E. Green Hist. Eng. Agric. Labourer ii. 47 Farmers did not have recourse to..letting their fields..as advertising sites for Somebody's Pills or Baked Beans. 1933 Punch 15 Feb. 170/2 All you have to do to give your family a really new tasty meal is to take a tin-opener and one tin of baked beans. |
2. Dried or fired in a (brick) kiln.
| 1545 Joye Exp. Daniel ii. 31 Golde, syluer, latine, yerne and bakt potte erth. 1609 Bible (Douay) Isa. xvi. 7 Walles of baqued bricke. 1858 Birch Anc. Pottery Introd. 5 Remains of baked earthenware. 1869 Rawlinson Five Mon. I. v, The sun-dried bricks have even more variety of size than the baked ones. |
3. a. Hardened or caked by heat (or otherwise).
| 1615 Latham Falconry (1633) 64 Their grease..will lie baked blew to their sides. 1858 W. Ellis Vis. Madagascar viii. 206 The soil..is hard-baked reddish earth. |
b. Typogr. (See quot. 1688.)
| 1683 Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing II. xxii. 257 Compositers in this Case say, The Letter is Bak'd. 1688 R. Holme Armory iii. iii. 119/1 Bake, is when Letters stick together in distributing... This is called the Letter is Baked. 1963 Kenneison & Spilman Dict. Printing 13 Baked (or caked), said of type which sticks together, thus making it difficult to distribute. |
† 4. baked meat, pastry: see bake-meat. Obs.