Baked alaska
a dessert consisting of ice cream on a cake base, placed briefly in a hot oven to brown its topping of meringue.
noun
a dessert consisting of cake and ice cream covered with meringue and cooked very quickly in a hot oven
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small white dried beans that have been baked, usually with salt pork, brown sugar or molasses, and seasonings. Historical Examples So we made him some tea and buttered42 toast, and opened and heated a can of baked beans. More Tish Mary Roberts Rinehart If you don’t stay I shall think it is because you don’t […]
- Baked into
to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones. to harden by heat: to bake pottery in a kiln. to dry by, or subject to heat: The sun baked the land. to bake bread, a casserole, etc. to become baked: The cake will bake in about half an hour. to […]
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bakemeat. pastry; pie. cooked food, especially a meat pie. Historical Examples Good God, that a man should live to regret not being young enough to be still treated as baked meat, and served up in a pie! Peveril of the Peak Sir Walter Scott And do we make gravy for baked meat in the same […]
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a brand name for any of a series of thermosetting plastics prepared by heating phenol or cresol with formaldehyde and ammonia under pressure: used for radio cabinets, telephone receivers, electric insulators, and molded plastic ware. Historical Examples This second dial was no more than a thin disk of hard rubber or Bakelite, with a red […]
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