Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bake partially; overheat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, rare, cookery To
bake (bread ordough )partially so it can berapidly frozen forstorage .
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Examples
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I usually parbake the crust for 6 or 7 minutes first.
White Bean Pizza Sara 2006
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I usually parbake the crust for 6 or 7 minutes first.
Archive 2006-01-01 Sara 2006
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If I were going to freeze a pizza like this, I would parbake the crust like in Trent's tutorial, throw on the toppings and then stick the pizza in the freezer (on the pan) for a couple of hours until it's good and solid.
The Simple Dollar 2009
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Not unless I parbake it, stick it a cardboard box and freeze it …
WordPress.com News 2009
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You can parbake it, if you wish, but I generally don’t, in part out of laziness and in part because I don’t find it gets a particularly “soggy bottom” as Julia Child used to call it.
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Do you really need to parbake the pie/tart crust? because i’ve made quiche before, and never parbaked the crust and it came out fine.
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