pie-baking

plural pie-bakings

1. alternativeattributivecountableuncountableusuallyAlternative form of pie baking.

   The old lodgings are aromatic with her pie-bakings.

   1913, The Christian Advocate - Volume 88, page 1726

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   “It appears you have not forgotten the pies yet,” exclaimed the czar, with a burst of laughter; “but I do not clearly see the connection between pie-baking and shipbuilding."

   1865, The Boys' Journal - Volumes 4-5, page 338

   Of course, all housekeepers make enough pastry for two or three pie-bakings, don t we?

   1927, Farm Journal - Volume 51, page 96

   Winner of three blue ribbons in the pie-baking contest and four in the cakebaking contest at the county fair.

   2014, Sherryl Woods, The Calamity Janes, →ISBN

comparative more pie-baking · superlative most pie-baking

1. That bakes pies.

   It was the seemingly total transplant of her personality from a sweet, pie-baking granny to a septuagenarian hooligan.

   2014, Phyllis Bourne, Every Road To You, →ISBN

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   One year later, writer and humorist Andrei Codrescu informed readers of Travel Holiday magazine that "going to the Ozark Mountains is like visiting your grandmother, provided your grandmother was an old-fashioned, pie-baking, herb-growing pioneer who used homemade brooms and poured ice cream from a dented churn."

   2002, Brooks Blevins, Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers & Their Image, →ISBN, page 271

   But the thing is, I don't like being compared to a pie-baking paragon who doesn't even exist, and I don't like you implying that I don't have the brains or the professionalism to assist this investigation.

   2004, Erin McCarthy, Smart Mouth, →ISBN