Definition of Hardbake

1. Noun. A British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds.

Generic synonyms: Confection, Sweet

Definition of Hardbake

1. n. A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc.

Definition of Hardbake

1. Noun. A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses with almonds, flavoured with orange or lemon juice. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hardbake

1. an almond toffee [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hardbake

hard up
hard water
hard wheat
hard wired
hard work
hard worker
hard yakka
hard yards
hardback
hardbacked
hardbacks
hardbag
hardbags
hardbake (current term)
hardbakes
hardball
hardballer
hardballers
hardbeams
hardbill
hardbills
hardbitten
hardboard
hardboards
hardboil
hardboiled

Literary usage of Hardbake

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Complete Confectioner, Pastry-cook, and Baker: Plain and Practical by Eleanor Parkinson (1844)
"Almond hardbake.—Oil a square or round tin with low edges; split some almonds in half, put them in rows over the bottom, with the split side downward, ..."

2. A Treatise on the Art of Boiling Sugar, Crystallizing, Lozenge-making by Henry Weatherley (1865)
"... hardbake, or Eggs and Bacon. To a seven pound boil as previously instructed, add when at the crack, half an egg cup of cochineal, and boil it in, ..."

3. The Clinical Journal (1897)
"On section the spleen may present the characteristic appearance known as the " hardbake " spleen, which consists in a number of white masses embedded in a ..."

4. London labour and the London poor: Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings by Henry Mayhew (1861)
"hardbake and toffee arc made by a similar process from brown sugar. Toffee differs from hardbake from containing butter. ..."

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