Bread and Cooking

noun

• Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked.
  • synonyms: breadstuff, staff of life
• Informal terms for money.
  • synonyms: boodle, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum

verb

• Cover with bread crumbs.
  • usage: "bread the pork chops before frying them"

• (a.) To spread.
• (v.t.) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.
• (n.) An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.
• (n.) Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

noun

• The act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.
  • usage: "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"
  • synonyms: cookery, preparation

verb

• Prepare a hot meal.
  • usage: "My husband doesn't cook"
  • synonyms: cook
• Prepare for eating by applying heat.
  • usage: "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
  • synonyms: cook, fix, ready, make, prepare
• Transform and make suitable for consumption by heating.
  • usage: "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
  • synonyms: cook
• Tamper, with the purpose of deception.
  • usage: "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"
  • synonyms: fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent
• Transform by heating.
  • usage: "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"
  • synonyms: cook