Cookery Meaning
/ˈkʊk(ə)ɹi/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
nounA delicacy; a dainty.
Sentence Examples
Creole cookery is rather spicy.
My mum follows this cookery book closely whenever she cooks something.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She enrolled in a professional ____ course to learn advanced baking techniques.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Creole ____ is rather spicy.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English cokerie, kokery, equivalent to cook + -ery.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"together with excellent directions for cookery, as also for preserving, conserving, candying, &c."
— 1475, Kenelm Digby, The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened, subtitle:
"I've got a bit of cookery that will astonish him — my marinated pheasants' poults a la braise imperiale."
— 1839, John Espy Lovell, “Fish out of water”, in Rhetorical Dialogues, page 335:
"She directed the servants, inspected both the cookery and arrangements of the table, held council with an old steward..."
— 1800, Charlotte Yonge, The Little Duke, page 3:
"...and would not be just dead weight, as on the trail it could conveniently be filled with the cookery and other odds and ends..."
— 1934, Gray Owl, Pilgrims of the Wild, page 101:
"Mr. Weller produced upon the little dining-table, a roast leg of mutton and an enormous meat-pie, with sundry dishes of vegetables, and pots of porter, which stood upon the chairs or the sofa bedstead, or where they could, everybody felt disposed to do justice to the meal, notwithstanding that the meat had been purchased, and dressed, and the pie made, and baked, at the prison cookery hard by."
— 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She enrolled in a professional ____ course to learn advanced baking techniques.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Creole ____ is rather spicy.