It's an old-fashioned technique that essentially means baking an egg.

The company described itself as a small local business that employed old-fashioned techniques to make an increasingly popular product.

They therefore decided to follow him to his house and revert to the more old-fashioned but time-proven technique of the sudden rap on the skull.

Hewlett said he copied some old-fashioned techniques into his own project.

He was conservative, often using old-fashioned techniques.

The dome of the church was decorated with mosaics, a somewhat unusual and old-fashioned technique in the 16th century.

Every timepiece manufactured in-house is still made using the old-fashioned hand-made technique.

Many of the old-fashioned, frugal housekeeping techniques she remembers so well from her childhood are familiar to me, too.

There are also old-fashioned techniques like using codes to communicate and store information.

Presumably, the point of the novel's old-fashioned technique is to bring its characters' behavior into perspective by viewing it from a greater distance.