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cookery|ˈkʊkərɪ|
Forms: 4 cokerie, (5 kokery), 6 cokery(e, coquerie, -rye, (kouckery), 6–7 cookerie.
[f. cook n. or v.1 + -ery 2.]
1. a. The art or practice of cooking, the preparation of food by means of fire.
1393Gower Conf. II. 83 Berconius of cokerie First made the delicacie. c1450Two Cookery-bks. 69 Here Beginnethe A Boke of Kokery. 1555Eden Decades 258 Theyr maner of coquerie is in manye thynges differynge from owres. 1570Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) 327 A booke of kouckery in prent. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. vi. 64 Fine Egyptian cookerie. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 265 A house, or a place at least, for our cookery. 1818Colebrooke Import Colon. Corn 94 Animal matters which have undergone cookery, etc. 1884L'pool Daily Post 24 July 5 A new department will be opened for the neighbouring School of Cookery.
b. with pl.
1699W. Dampier Voy. (1729) II. i. 31 The most common Sorts of Cookeries..is to dress little bits of Pork. 1863A. Marsh Heathside F. II. 86 Wait till I get a school of my own, and see what cookeries I'll have.
†2. concr. Cooking apparatus and material. Obs.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage 588 [In Cairo] there are estemed to bee 15000 Cookes which carry their Cookerie and boile it as they goe, on their heads.
†3. A product of the cook's art. Obs. rare.
a1734North Lives (1808) II. 205 (D.) His appetite was gone, and cookeries were provided in order to tempt his palate, but all was chip. 1802D. Wordsworth Grasmere Jrnl. 24 Jan. in Jrnls. (1941) I. 101 We..made a nice piece of cookery for Wm.'s supper. 1855C. M. Yonge Railroad Children v. 37 Many was the nice little cookery of broth or gruel made for her especial benefit.
†4. A cooking establishment; a kitchen; a cook-shop. Obs.
1598Stow Surv. x. (1603) 80 A common cookerie or cookes row. 1611Cotgr. Rotisserie..a kitchen, cookerie, or cookes shop, wherein meat is vsually rosted. a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xxxvii. 310 The Roast-meat Cookery of the Petit Chastelet, before the Cook-Shop. 1837Dickens Pickw. xliv, The pie made and baked at the prison cookery hard by.
5. fig. The action or method of ‘cooking’ or ‘dressing up’ (e.g. a literary work); the practice of ‘cooking’ or falsifying: see cook v.1 3.
1709Tatler No. 11 ⁋6 We..have no Occasion for that Art of Cookery, which our Brother Newsmongers so much excel in;..dressing up a second Time for your Tast the same Dish which they gaue you the Day before. 1869Contemp. Rev. XII. 62 The legends might have been ‘cooked’ over and over again, but the cookery came at last to nought.
6. attrib. and Comb., as cookery competition, cookery-lesson, cookery-school, etc.; cookery-book, a book of receipts and instructions in cookery.
1639M. Verney Will in F. P. Verney Memoirs (1892) II. i. 18 All but my noats and account and medsinable and coockery Boockes, such keep. 1810Annabella Plumptre (title) Domestic Management; or, The Healthy Cookery-Book. 1873Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 131 A recipe in the cookery-book. 1884Pall Mall G. 21 Feb. 2/1 A cookery competition for the women was carried on during the three days. |