bakecraft

English

Etymology

From bake +‎ -craft.

Noun

bakecraft (uncountable)

1. The skills of a baker; the art of baking.
   • 1936, American Independent Baker:

     […] of design and engineering features that can be brought to fruition only after years of experience with the technical phases of bakecraft.

   • 1956, James William Francis Hill, Tudor and Stuart Lincoln, page 30:

     An apprentice or journeyman could not trade on his own account until he had become free and paid a setting-up fee, and a journeyman must serve the art of bakecraft for three years before he might set up.

   • 1996, Elizabeth Moon, The Legacy of Gird:

     "My mother and sisters have threadcraft enough," Gird said. "But a parrion of cooking they'd welcome, even more in herblore than bakecraft."