smokehouse

Everyday

A building or room where meat or fish is hung and smoked over a slow fire to flavour it and keep it from going bad. tree →

In the lessons

History and food science: smoking was a way to preserve food before fridges, using smoke and drying. Today smokehouses make smoked salmon, kippers and bacon. In farm and village stories it is one of the outbuildings.

Examples

• The fish hung in the smokehouse for two days. tree →
• Grandpa's farm had an old wooden smokehouse. tree →
• Smoked salmon comes from a smokehouse. tree →
• The kippers were made in a smokehouse by the harbour. tree →
• Before fridges, many farms had a smokehouse. tree →
• The smokehouse smelled of oak smoke. tree →

Note

Compound: smoke + house. Plural: smokehouses.