|
Definition of Hardbake
1. Noun. A British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds.
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
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. ..."