Baking
Baking in a dream — the patient turning of simple stuff into bread — reads variably in the old books, sometimes as thrift and provision, sometimes as the weight of too many cares and thin support. The dream tends to ask what we are labouring to make sustaining, and whether the work feeds us or wears us.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for baking, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
Baking is unpropitious for a woman. Ill health and the care of many children; meanness and poverty of supporters are indicated.
Fontaine, 1862
(See Oven.) For a woman to dream she is baking bread, foretells thrift. If she is a farmer's wife, it is a sign of good crops. If she burns her bread it is a sign that she will have a miscarriage.