well-cookedadj.

1611 Disc. against Flatterie 29 Flatterers..with their well cooked and drest words, doe as it were make vs to haue so good an opinion of our selues, that wee count those things to be vertues in vs, which indeed are vices.

1681 T. D'Urfey Sir Barnaby Whigg iv. i. 39 For 'tis a folly for a man to snatch greedily a raw ill-dress'd morsel, when for a little patience a well-cook'd savoury Dish will court his appetite.

1797 W. Johnston tr. H. Estienne in tr. J. Beckmann Hist. Inventions & Discov. I. 284 Without saffron we cannot have well-cooked peas.

1836 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion ii. iii. 270 Plain well-cooked animal food, not too recently killed.

a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) I. xxviii. 314 Then the meals, light and well-cooked, suited his taste and delicate appetite.

1940 Brit. Red Cross Soc. Cookery & Catering Man. (ed. 4) xviii. 155 Well-cooked meat and vegetables served with a badly made gravy are a meal spoilt.

1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food xxi. 637 A pear as hard as a stone..which could only be eaten well cooked.

2005 Independent 10 Dec. (Mag.) 71/2 Well-cooked versions of essentially humble truckstop dishes.