bake vs stew

bake

verb
  • To cause to be hot. 

  • To incorporate into something greater. 

  • To be hot. 

  • To cook (something) in an oven (for someone). 

  • To dry by heat. 

  • To smoke marijuana. 

  • To be warmed to drying and hardening. 

  • To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance. 

  • To be cooked in an oven. 

noun
  • A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten in Barbados and sometimes elsewhere, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or in some places sometimes roasted). 

  • Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole. 

  • Any food item that is baked. 

  • The act of cooking food by baking. 

  • A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served. 

stew

verb
  • To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions. 

  • To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong. 

  • To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering. 

  • To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger. 

noun
  • A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath. 

  • A dish cooked by stewing. 

  • A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion. 

  • A steward or stewardess on an airplane or boat. 

  • A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating. 

  • An artificial bed of oysters. 

How often have the words bake and stew occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )