pie baking

English

Alternative forms

• pie-baking, piebaking

Etymology

pie +‎ baking

Noun

pie baking (countable and uncountable, plural pie bakings)

1. The act of baking pies.
   • 2008, Lauren Chattman, Mom's Big Book of Baking:

     But wouldn't it be nice to add pie baking to your resume anyway?

   • 2013, Nathan Williams, The Kinfolk Table: Recipes, →ISBN, page 54:

     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, John Phillip Carroll, Pie Pie Pie: Easy Homemade Favorites, →ISBN, page 8:

     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.