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hardbake

hardbake noun: a hard confection made of boiled brown sugar or molasses with almonds, flavoured with orange or lemon juice, similar to a nougat.

Noun

hardbake (countable and uncountable, plural hardbakes)

  1. A hard confection made of boiled brown sugar or molasses with almonds, flavoured with orange or lemon juice, similar to a nougat.
    • a washerwoman, who exposes hard-bake for sale in her parlor-window1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 27, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC
    • They both had a taste for painting theatrical characters; for hard bake and raspberry tarts; for sliding and skating in the Regent's Park and the Serpentine, when the weather permitted; for going to the play, whither they were often conducted, by Mr. Osborne's orders, by Rowson, Master George's...1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

Forms of hardbake

pluralhardbakes

Origin of hardbake

From hard + bake.

Questions about hardbake

What does hardbake mean?
Hardbake means a hard confection made of boiled brown sugar or molasses with almonds, flavoured with orange or lemon juice, similar to a nougat.
What part of speech is hardbake?
Hardbake is a noun.
What is the plural of hardbake?
The plural of hardbake is hardbakes.

Words near hardbake in the dictionary

  1. hardbacked
  2. hardbacker
  3. hardbackers
  4. hardbacks
  5. hardbag
  6. hardbake
  7. hardbakes
  8. hardball
  9. hardballed
  10. hardballer
  11. hardballers

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