cookery
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈkʊkəɹi/
Noun

cookery

  1. The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
    Synonyms: cooking
    Henry was not very good at cookery and most of his meals ended up burned.
    • 1475, Kenelm Digby, The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened, subtitle:
      together with excellent directions for cookery, as also for preserving, conserving, candying, &c.
  2. (obsolete) A delicacy; a dainty.
    • 1839, John Espy Lovell, "Fish out of water", Rhetorical Dialogues, page 335:
      I've got a bit of cookery that will astonish him — my marinated pheasants' poults a la braise imperiale.
  3. (obsolete) Cooking tools or apparatus.
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