Cooking

“cook (uo)” and “cook (st), prepare (st) for table” mean to cook in the broadest sense of preparing food, by whatever means.

There are verbs for two basic types of cooking. “roast (uo)” means to cook by the dry application of heat. It therefore covers what in English are described as roasting, baking, broiling, grilling, and frying, including deep frying. In contrast, “stew (st)” means to cook in hot liquid or vapour and therefore corresponds to the English “stew” and “steam”, as well as “boil” when “boil” refers to cooking something in hot liquid as opposed to making liquid boil.

The verbs “boil (st:liquid)” and “boil (st), make (st) bubble” mean to bring liquid to a boil. They are not used for cooking things in boiling liquid. Strictly speaking “boil (st), make (st) bubble” means to cause to bubble, whereas “boil (st:liquid)” means to cause to boil. The former may therefore be used in circumstances that do not involve heating the liquid, or when heating liquid only to the point where it bubbles a little but is not boiling vigorously. To describe bringing liquid to a full boil, “boil (st:liquid)” should be used. Similarly, “dunulmulh” means “it is bubbling”, “dunulch'oh” “it is boiling”.

The verb for whipping soapberries to make Indian Ice Cream is: “whip (st)”, “whip (uo)”.

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