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Origin and history of baking

baking(n.)

late 14c., "process of making bread," verbal noun from bake (v.). Baking powder "yeast substitute" is from 1850.

also from late 14c.

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bake(v.)

Old English bacan "to bake, to cook by dry heat in a closed place or on a heated surface," from Proto-Germanic *bakan "to bake" (source also of Old Norse baka, Middle Dutch backen, Old High German bahhan, German backen), from PIE *bheg- (source also of Greek phogein "to roast"), extended form of root *bhē- "to warm" (see bath). Related: Baked (Middle English had baken); baking. Baked beans is attested by 1803.

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    Trends of baking

    adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/ with a 7-year moving average; ngrams are probably unreliable.

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    Sliced bread is a radical departure in the baking industry and although the Weber Baking Company will continue to supply...
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    The Aunt Jemima ready-mix food product in U.S. was advertised from c. 1918; the name (and image) was on baking powder advertisements...
    pizza
    The notion of taking a flat piece of bread dough and baking it with a savoury topping is a widespread one and of long standing...ascertain, by garnishing a slab of reinforced asphalt paving with mucilage, whale-blubber and the skeletons of small fishes, baking...
    shortening
    The meaning "butter or other fat or oil used in baking" (by 1796) is from shorten in the cookery sense "make crumbly," attested...
    roll
    Specific cookery meaning "small quantity of dough which is rolled before baking" is recorded from mid-15c....
    soda
    Washing soda (sodium carbonate) is commonly distinguished from baking soda (sodium bicarbonate)....A soda-cracker (1863) has baking soda as an ingredient, as does soda bread (1850)....
    preparation
    late 14c., preparacioun, "act of preparing or making ready, preliminary act or operation, a previous setting in order," from Old French preparacion (13c.) and directly from Latin praeparationem (nominative praeparatio) "a making ready," noun of action from past participle stem of
    broil
    "to cook (meat) by direct action of heat," late 14c. (earlier "to burn," mid-14c.), from Old French bruller "to broil, roast" (Modern French brûler), earlier brusler "to burn" (11c.), which, with Italian bruciare, is of uncertain and much-disputed origin. Perhaps from Vulgar Lati
    fire
    Old English fyr "fire, a fire," from Proto-Germanic *fūr- (source also of Old Saxon fiur, Old Frisian fiur, Old Norse fürr, Middle Dutch and Dutch vuur, Old High German fiur, German Feuer "fire"), from PIE *perjos, from root *paewr- "fire." Current spelling is attested as early a
    rife
    Old English rife "abundant, of common occurrence, prevalent," often of hurtful or obnoxious things, from Proto-Germanic *rif- (source also of Old Norse rifr, Swedish river, Norwegian riv, Middle Dutch riif, Middle Low German rive "abundant, generous"), said to be from PIE root *r

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