baconize

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English

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Etymology

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From bacon +‎ -ize.

Verb

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baconize (third-person singular simple present baconizes, present participle baconizing, simple past and past participle baconized)

  1. (transitive, cooking) To prepare like bacon, by smoking etc.
    • 1860, Harvard Magazine, volume 6, page 69:
      Can you not choose a process more pleasant to the world at large, if you must thus “baconize” your bodies?
    • 1916, Western Canner and Packer, volume 8, page 7:
      A plant will be established in Everett by the Baconized Salmon Company of Juneau, Alaska, for the manufacture of baconized salmon.
  2. (transitive, cooking) To prepare with bacon as an ingredient; to add bacon to.
    • 1925, Good Housekeeping, volume 80, page 71:
      Baconized Macaroni and Corn, with its crisp bacon, suggests a delight []
    • 2018, Kay Plunkett-Hogge, The Art of the Party: Drinks & Nibbles for Easy Entertaining:
      One of the best Old Fashioneds I have had was made with baconized bourbon. To make it, buy the smokiest cure of streaky bacon you can find – hickory smoked is best – and cook up enough for a good bacon sandwich.