baking spray

noun

: a nonstick spray that contains cooking oil and usually flour and is used to line bakeware during baking

Drop spoonfuls of dough on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or sprayed with baking spray.

—Lou Jane Temple, Death is Semisweet, 2002

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

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