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bake |
When you bake something, you cook it in an oven. For baking, the oven is hot but at a medium temperature for an oven. Things like bread, cake, and cookies are baked. [1/2 definitions] |
bake sale |
A bake sale is an event in which things like cookies, pies, brownies, and cupcakes, are sold in order to raise money for a cause. |
batch |
A batch is an amount of something that is produced in one completed process. For example, a recipe for cookies might make twenty cookies. This means that twenty cookies is the size of one batch of those cookies. If you make another batch of cookies with that recipe, you'll bake forty cookies all together. |
clay |
Clay is wet earth that gets hard when you bake it in a hot oven. Clay is used for making things like bowls, pots, and bricks. When clay is soft and wet, it is easy to press it into whatever shape you want, but after you bake it, you can't change it. |
cook |
When you cook food, you make it ready to eat by making it hot. When you boil an egg, fry a chicken, or bake a potato, you are cooking food. [1/4 definitions] |
corn1 |
Corn is what we call the seeds that come from a corn plant. The seeds grow on long things called ears. People often cook the seeds and eat them as a vegetable. When the seeds are dried, they can be ground up to make flour. With the flour, people can bake things like corn muffins or corn bread. [1/2 definitions] |
fire |
to use extreme heat on; bake in a kiln. [1/9 definitions] |
from scratch |
If you cook or bake something from scratch, you do it using basic ingredients and basic methods. If you bake a cake from scratch, you measure and combine things like flour, sugar, eggs, salt, oil, and water. You don't buy a cake mix at the store. [1/2 definitions] |
mix |
When you mix things, you put them together so that they are not separate things anymore. We often mix things when we bake or cook. [2/4 definitions] |
pan |
A pan is an open container that you can cook or bake food in. It is usually made of metal or glass. Some pans have handles, but others do not. A pan is often used for frying or cooking foods on a stove, or for baking or roasting things in an oven. [1/4 definitions] |
recipe |
A recipe is something that tells you how to make some kind of food. It gives you a list of things you need, and it tells you how to put them together. It also tells you how long to cook or bake something. |
rhyme |
When words rhyme, they end in the same group of sounds, like "bake" and "snake." [1/6 definitions] |
roast |
to cook or bake with dry heat in an oven or over an open fire. [1/6 definitions] |
step |
A step is one part of a process. Making bread is an example of a process. The first step in making bread is to measure the flour. The second step is to add salt and other things that go into the bread. The last step is to bake the bread dough in the oven. [1/8 definitions] |
teaspoon |
A teaspoon is a certain amount of a liquid or other substance. We often use teaspoons as a way to measure small amounts of things when we cook or bake. A small spoon in your kitchen holds about one teaspoon, or maybe a little more. A short way to write teaspoon or teaspoons is "tsp." [1/2 definitions] |
yeast |
Yeast is something that is often used in making bread. Yeast is a substance that makes bread rise. Without yeast, or something similar to yeast, dough will bake in an oven but the bread will be flat. |
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