pie baking meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

pie baking

nounalso spelled pie-baking

Etymology From pie + baking.

The act of baking pies.

But wouldn't it be nice to add pie baking to your resume anyway?2008, Lauren Chattman, Mom's Big Book of Baking:
Both adept storytellers, they frequently recount memories of the culinary and family traditions that were part of their childhoods— mass pie bakings, special-edition family cookbooks, and family parades; the experiences are varied and treasured.2013, Nathan Williams, The Kinfolk Table: Recipes, →ISBN, page 54:

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ln perusing much of what has been written about pies in the last decade or so, I'm struck by how often pie baking is transformed into something quite time-consuming, even intimidating.2013, John Phillip Carroll, Pie Pie Pie: Easy Homemade Favorites, →ISBN, page 8:

adj

That bakes pies.

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:

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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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