熏制

熏製

xūnzhì

verb

Meanings

1 to smoke-cure (meat, fish, tofu)
2 to preserve by smoking

Characters

to smoke, to fumigate

to make, to produce

Examples

湖南人喜欢熏制腊肉。

Húnán rén xǐhuan xūnzhì làròu.

Hunanese people like to smoke-cure bacon.

这种火腿是用果木熏制的。

Zhè zhǒng huǒtuǐ shì yòng guǒmù xūnzhì de.

This ham is smoke-cured with fruitwood.

Tips

culture

Per 《新华词典》: 用烟火或香花熏食品 — 'to use smoke or fragrant flowers to treat food, so it takes on a flavor and keeps longer'. Hunan, Sichuan and Guizhou mountain villages still cure pork over pine or tea-twig smoke for months each winter.

Stroke Order

熏 xūn

制 zhì