Besides this barley, there were, as above, twenty or thirty stalks of rice, which I preserved with the same care and for the same use, or to the same purpose—to make me bread, or rather food; for I found ways to cook it without baking, though I did that also after some time.
The baking part was the next thing to be considered, and how I should make bread when I came to have corn; for first, I had no yeast.
These I burned in the fire, as I had done the other, and laid them by; and when I wanted to bake, I made a great fire upon my hearth, which I had paved with some square tiles of my own baking and burning also; but I should not call them square.
Here, the flickering of the blaze showed preparations for a cosy dinner, with hot plates baking through and through before the fire, and deep red curtains, ready to be drawn to shut out cold and darkness.
1861, Harriet Jacobs (AKA Linda Brent), Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl[1]:
Upon these terms, after working hard all day for her mistress, she began her midnight bakings, assisted by her two oldest children.
1871, Ledyard Bill, Minnesota; Its Character and Climate[2]:
How often have we risen in the morning, after spending the night in this manner, with a feeling akin to that which we fancy would come from being knocked in the head with a sack of meal, then gently stewed, and all out of pure fraternal regard to supply any deficiencies in our original bakings.
1913, Captain R. F. Scott, Scott's Last Expedition Volume I[3]:
Clissold's work of cooking has fallen on Hooper and Lashly, and it is satisfactory to find that the various dishes and bread bakings maintain their excellence.
1915, University of Minnesota. Dept. of Agriculture. Extension Division, Extension Bulletin[4], numbers 1-50, page 192:
Number of bakings. — a. Nine bakings of yeast bread, baked either at home or at school. b. One of these nine bakings must consist of not less than four loaves
1958, Purdue University. Cooperative Extension Service, Syria. Ministry of Agriculture. Extension Service, “Extension Circular”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[5], number 450, page 6:
Biscuits — five bakings of rolled biscuits. 2. Cookies — three bakings of rolled, drop or refrigerator cookies. Each baking will consist of at least two dozen sugar, fruit or fancy cookies.
1974, Douglas L. Oliver, Ancient tahitian society: Ethnography[6], page 221:
In fact, there were times when the whole populace ate gluttonously, as in connection with the mass-bakings (opi'o) of breadfruit when that staple was most plentiful
One baking was made of coarse rye bread, one baking of home-bolted sweet-sour bread, one baking of fine-bolted rye bread and one baking of wheat brea[d]
1991, Ewa Fryś-Pietraszkowa, Anna Kunczyńska-Iracka, Marian Pokropek, Folk art in Poland[8], page 254:
Bakings connected with given rituals were, on the other hand, given particularly decorative forms, just as were other ritual accessories. The character of the function of bread was often emphasized with shape and the kind of decoration
After this 'Kuckebrod' was baked, it was strung on poles about twelve feet long and put in the attic for future use. Two or three bakings would generally last a year.
2004, T. F. Rigelhof, Nothing Sacred: A Journey Beyond Belief[10], page 132:
The nuns baked bread for us three times a week, loaves and loaves of it. The bread that didn't get eaten between bakings got used up as stuffing in roast fish on Fridays
2005, Bruce Taylor, The Battlecruiser HMS Hood: An Illustrated Biography, 1916-1941[11]:
Navy food remained of doubtful quality even with the benefit of every modern convenience, but few complained of the bread, over three-quarters of a ton of which was produced in five bakings each day.
