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smoke-dried

ADJECTIVE
  1. (used especially of meats and fish) dried and cured by hanging in wood smoke

How To Use smoke-dried In A Sentence

  • Large cardamom has a strong, harsh flavor for two reasons: much of the crop is smoke-dried, and the seeds are rich in the penetrating terpenes cineole and camphor. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
  • It might not have struck every beholder, for it looked old and smoke-dried; but a connoisseur, on inspecting it closely, would have pronounced it to be a judgment of Paris, and a masterpiece of the Flemish school. Lavengro
  • Sensory scores for smoke-dried fish were generally good for colour, smell, dryness, and general appearance.
  • They secure large quantities of fish in this way, which, when smoke-dried, make a good relish for their otherwise insipid food. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
  • I remember when you were a boy you wished to make your fine new whip a present to old Aunt Peggy, merely because she admired it; and now, with like unreflecting and inappropriate liberality, you would resign your beloved to a smoke-dried young sophister, who cares not one of the hairs which it is his occupation to split, for all the daughters of Eve. Redgauntlet
  • To certain smoke-dried spirits matter and motion and elastic aethers, and the hypothesis of this or that other spectacled professor, tell a speaking story; but for youth and all ductile and congenial minds, Pan is not dead, but of all the classic hierarchy alone survives in triumph; goat-footed, with Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
  • All the time six or eight large Chinese gongs were being beaten by the vigorous arms of as many young men, producing such a deafening discord that I was glad to escape to the round house, where I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head, The Malay Archipelago
  • No longer were social parties the old heraldic solemnities [Footnote 4] enjoined by red letters in the almanac, in which the chief objects were to discharge some arrear of ceremonious debt, or to ventilate old velvets, or to _apricate_ and refresh old gouty systems and old traditions of feudal ostentation, which both alike suffered and grew smoke-dried under too rigorous a seclusion. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2
  • He cut up and smoke-dried the flesh, and the intolerable pangs of hunger compelled me to share the loathsome food with him. Green Mansions
  • Smoke-dried over local oak in La Vera, Spain, piment ó n is often called "vegetarian bacon" by chefs. The Bacon Backlash
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