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baking beans

baking beans noun: small heat-resistant weights, usually ceramic or metal, used to hold pastry down during blind baking in order for it to not puff up or shrink.

Noun

baking beans pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Small heat-resistant weights, usually ceramic or metal, used to hold pastry down during blind baking in order for it to not puff up or shrink.

Questions about baking beans

What does baking beans mean?
Baking beans means small heat-resistant weights, usually ceramic or metal, used to hold pastry down during blind baking in order for it to not puff up or shrink.
What part of speech is baking beans?
Baking beans is a noun.

Words near baking beans in the dictionary

  1. Bakhtiyaris
  2. Baki
  3. Bakiad
  4. bakin'
  5. baking
  6. baking beans
  7. baking board
  8. baking boards
  9. baking chocolate
  10. baking chocolates
  11. baking hot

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