flambé vs scald

flambé

verb
  • To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited. 

noun
  • A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited. 

  • A flambéed dish. 

adj
  • Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides. 

  • Being, or having been, flambéed. 

scald

verb
  • To burn with hot liquid. 

  • To heat almost to boiling. 

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

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