Basil jam heated through lightly with 火を通す
Vocabulary Explanation: Collocations for cooking
Mikochi wants to sell a jam-and-bread set at the festival, and she and Hakumei have cooked a big pot of raspberry jam through the night. Mikochi had Hakumei fetch a small pot for a test batch, added a splash of rum, then chopped basil leaves fine and put them into the jam.
- ミコチ:
- 「軽く火を通して完成」
- “Heat it through lightly, and it's done.”
- 「パンの試作出来てる？」
- “Is the test bread ready?”
- ハクメイ:
- 「出来てる！」
- “It's ready!”
Key Points
- 通す means to let something pass through. 火を通す has the heat pass into the food, so it means to cook or heat something through.
- The intransitive pair is 火が通る, “the heat has gone through”, as in 中まで火が通った, “it’s cooked all the way inside”.
- 軽く softens it to a quick heating. Mikochi wants the basil warmed into the jam, not stewed.
- Mikochi links the step and the result with the て form: 火を通して完成, “heat it through, and it’s done”.
- Recipes often end on a bare noun like 完成 with no だ, the way English says “Done!”
- パンの試作出来てる？ drops the は or が after 試作. Full, it would be パンの試作は出来ている？
- 出来てる is 出来ている with the い dropped. 出来る here means to be finished or ready, and ている says the bread is in that finished state now. Hakumei answers with the same words.
Vocabulary
軽い (Light)
軽い means light in weight. It can also describe something minor, mild, or easy to do.
火 (Fire)
火 is fire or flame. In cooking, it also means the heat of a stove, as in 火を通す, “to cook something through”.
通す (To pass through)
通す is to let something or someone pass through, or to run something through from one side to the other. It also means to see a plan or opinion through to the end.
完成 (Completion)
完成 means completion, when something is fully finished.
パン (Bread)
パン is bread, including rolls and pastries.
試作 (Prototype)
試作 is making a first version of something to see how it turns out before making it for real.
出来る (To be able to)
出来る means to be able to do something. It can also mean that something is made, completed, or comes into existence.
See Also
- Vocabulary: Collocations for cooking
- Grammar: Connecting actions with 〜て・〜で
- Grammar: How casual contractions work
- Kanji: Becoming and accomplishing with 成
- Kanji: Going out and emerging with 出
- Kanji: Making and creating things with 作
- Kanji: Testing and trying with 試