1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Baking

BAKING, the action of the verb “to bake,” a word, in various forms, common to Teutonic languages (cf. Ger. backen), meaning to cook by dry heat. “Baking” is thus primarily applied to the process of preparing bread, and is also applied to the hardening by heat or “firing” of pottery, earthenware or bricks. (See Bread; Ceramics and Brick.)