So the shepherd took some of the branches to the local monastery....
where the abbots decided to roast them..
.When the berries burned....
.the beans inside gave off such a pleasant aroma....
they brewed them into a stew..
Stew, huh?.
And over the next few hundred years, it spread to Arabia, Europe....
even Sumatra, like that hooch you got over there..

我觉得意思是他们在炖菜锅中冲泡它们。但是词典中说：名词[废语]炖菜锅，煨焖器。

如果是废语的话，那么现在就没有这个意思了，那么这个句子如何解释？

还有hooch在这里的意思是什么？