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.
| 1393 Gower Conf. II. 83 Berconius of cokerie First made the delicacie. c 1450 Two Cookery-bks. 69 Here Beginnethe A Boke of Kokery. 1555 Eden Decades 258 Theyr maner of coquerie is in manye thynges differynge from owres. 1570 Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) 327 A booke of kouckery in prent. 1606 Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. vi. 64 Fine Egyptian cookerie. 1725 De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 265 A house, or a place at least, for our cookery. 1818 Colebrooke Import Colon. Corn 94 Animal matters which have undergone cookery, etc. 1884 L'pool Daily Post 24 July 5 A new department will be opened for the neighbouring School of Cookery. |
b. with pl.
| 1699 W. Dampier Voy. (1729) II. i. 31 The most common Sorts of Cookeries..is to dress little bits of Pork. 1863 A. 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.
| 1613 Purchas 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.
| a 1734 North Lives (1808) II. 205 (D.) His appetite was gone, and cookeries were provided in order to tempt his palate, but all was chip. 1802 D. Wordsworth Grasmere Jrnl. 24 Jan. in Jrnls. (1941) I. 101 We..made a nice piece of cookery for Wm.'s supper. 1855 C. 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.
| 1598 Stow Surv. x. (1603) 80 A common cookerie or cookes row. 1611 Cotgr. Rotisserie..a kitchen, cookerie, or cookes shop, wherein meat is vsually rosted. a 1693 Urquhart Rabelais iii. xxxvii. 310 The Roast-meat Cookery of the Petit Chastelet, before the Cook-Shop. 1837 Dickens 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.
| 1709 Tatler 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. 1869 Contemp. 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.
| 1639 M. Verney Will in F. P. Verney Memoirs (1892) II. i. 18 All but my noats and account and medsinable and coockery Boockes, such keep. 1810 Annabella Plumptre (title) Domestic Management; or, The Healthy Cookery-Book. 1873 Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 131 A recipe in the cookery-book. 1884 Pall Mall G. 21 Feb. 2/1 A cookery competition for the women was carried on during the three days. |