haybox

/ ˈheɪˌbɒks /

noun

1. an airtight box full of hay or other insulating material used to keep partially cooked food warm and allow cooking by retained heat

Example Sentences

The practice of digging bean-holes, recently revived in the New York Times’ food section, goes back to the Native Americans; DIY haybox cooking was popular among the pioneers.

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The Messing Officer will fry a fillet of sole by means of haybox cookery, and during the process will publicly skin a ration rabbit in such a way that not the slightest depreciation is caused in the value of 2½d. attached to a rabbit-skin.

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