cooking by boiling
Rare term for boiling as a cooking method; mostly found in older or literary texts. Modern Japanese usually uses 煮る or 茹でる for boiling food.
The word 烹炊 often appears in old cookbooks.
galley; ship's kitchen
galley stovepipe
Compound of 烹 (boil, cook) and 炊 (cook, boil). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the spelling is conventionally associated with boiling as a cooking method.