brine vs flavor

brine

verb
  • To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution. 

  • To preserve food in a salt solution. 

noun
  • The sea or ocean; the water of the sea. 

  • Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling. 

flavor

verb
  • To add flavoring to something. 

noun
  • One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon). 

  • A substance used to produce a taste. Flavoring. 

  • The characteristic quality of something. 

  • A variety (of taste) attributed to an object. 

  • The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect. 

  • A kind or type. 

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