Obs. [f. bake = BAKEN pa. pple.; also baken meat, baked meat.] Pastry, a pie.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Prol., 343. Withoute bake mete was never his hous.
c. 1420. Liber Cocorum (1862), 55. Bakyn mete … And most daynté, come byhynde.
c. 1460. J. Russell, Bk. Nurture, in Babees Bk. (1868), 146. Almanere bakemetes þat byn good and hoot, Open hem aboue þe brym of þe coffyn cote.
1530. Palsgr., 196/2. Bake meate, uiande en paste.
1602. Shaks., Ham., I. ii. 180. The Funerall Bakt-meats Did coldly furnish forth the Marriage Tables.
1611. Bible, Gen. xl. 17. All manner of bakemetes for Pharaoh.
1624. Massinger, Renegado, V. v. To carry This bake-meat to Vitelli.
a. 1700. White Devil, in Dodsl., O. P., VI. 312 (N.). As if a man Should know what fowl is coffin’d in a bak’d meat Afore it is cut up.
