To soak food or spices in a liquid to soften or tenderize, or to have the food infuse its flavors into the liquid. Steeped vegetable is a Szechuan dish popular in many provinces. The important thing is a steeping urn, earthenware with a circular trough around its neck, so that when the trough is filled with water and an upside-down bowl is placed over the trough, it makes the urn airtight. You start the urn by putting in celery cabbages, large Chinese radishes, sweet pepper, hot pepper, cabbages, salt, and cold boiled water which would fill half the urn when empty. Never use greasy utensils with which to take out things. Never wash material to be added in, but peel or cut to get the clean part.
to immerse dry ingredients in water or other liquid to extract flavor or color.
To soak a food in liquid for a given amount of time for the purpose of extracting flavor and color or to soften ... more on steep here
To soak in a liquid held just below the boiling point
The process of soaking specialty grains is a nylon or muslin bag in water at between 150-170°F in order for the sugars contained to be added to the wort.
To let stand for a few minutes in water that has just been boiled to enhance flavour and colour.
To soak a food in liquid for a given amount of time. Sometimes, the liquid is hot, as in tea. Other times, as with macerated fruit, the liquid is cold or room temperature.
Soak in a liquid at a temperature just under the boiling point to soften or extract a flavor
infuse flavor and color from a dry substance into a liquid by boiling.
engross (oneself) fully; "He immersed himself into his studies"
let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse; "steep the blossoms in oil"; "steep the fruit in alcohol"
To soak, in order to extract flavor or soften.
To extract flavor or color at a temperature below the boiling point of water.
To extract color, flavor, or other qualities from a substance by leaving it in liquid just below the boiling point.
To allow food, such as tea, to stand in hot liquid to extract flavor and/or color.
The tanks in which barley is soaked in water at the beginning of the malting process.
To extract flavour by placing a solid food item in hot liquid (just below boiling point) for a certain period of time.
To let food, such as tea leaves, soak in liquid until the liquid absorbs its flavor and/or color.
Let stand in hot liquid to extract flavor, as in tea, or to hydrate dried vegetables or fruits.
To let food stand in (hot) liquid to extract or to enhance flavor, like tea in hot water or poached fruits in sugar syrup.
To soak an ingredient in a liquid in order to draw out volatile/soluble elements of the ingredient into the liquid.
To soak in a liquid at a temperature below the boiling point.
To soak in hot water at a temperature just under the boiling point
The vessel in which barley is soaked or steeped during malting.
Vessel in which barley is steeped in cold water to begin germination.
Letting a food, such as tea, stand in water that is just below boiling to extract flavor and color.
To let food, such as tea, stand in not quite boiling water until the flavor is extracted.
To soak dry ingredients (tea leaves, ground coffee, herbs, spices, etc.) in liquid until the flavor is infused into the liquid.
To extract flavor or medicinal qualities from material by soaking it in hot, but not boiling, water.
To extract or infuse the flavor of a dry ingredient, such as tea or coffee, by soaking in a hot liquid.