braise vs scald

braise

verb
  • To cook in a small amount of liquid, in a covered pan, somewhere between steaming and boiling. 

noun
  • A sauce used for braising. 

  • A dish (usually meat) prepared by braising. 

  • Pagellus bogaraveo, syn. Pagellus centrodontus (sea bream) 

scald

verb
  • To heat almost to boiling. 

  • To burn with hot liquid. 

noun
  • A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam. 

How often have the words braise and scald occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )