cookery

CEFRB1

/ˈkʊk(ə)ɹi/

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Cooking tools or apparatus.
The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
A place where cooking is done.

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Henry was not very good at cookery and most of his meals ended up burned.
I've got a bit of cookery that will astonish him — my marinated pheasants' poults a la braise imperiale.
together with excellent directions for cookery, as also for preserving, conserving, candying, &c.

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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
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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From Middle English cokerie, kokery, equivalent to cook + -ery.