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cook·er·y
(ko͝ok′ə-rē)n. pl. cook·er·ies
1. The art or practice of preparing food.
2. A place for cooking.
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cookery
(ˈkʊkərɪ)n
1. (Cookery) the art, study, or practice of cooking
2. (Cookery) US a place for cooking
3. (Cookery) Canadian a cookhouse at a mining or lumber camp
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cook•er•y
(ˈkʊk ə ri)n., pl. -er•ies.
1. the art or practice of cooking.
2. a place equipped for cooking.
[1350–1400]
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| Noun | 1. |  cookery - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"change of state - the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics baking - cooking by dry heat in an oven toasting, browning - cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill; "proper toasting should brown both sides of a piece of bread" broil, broiling, grilling - cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) fusion cooking - cooking that combines ingredients and techniques and seasonings from different cuisines braising - cooking slowly in fat in a closed pot with little moisture poaching - cooking in simmering liquid roasting - cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added); "the slow roasting took several hours" tenderisation, tenderization - the act of making meat tender by pounding or marinating it percolation - the act of making coffee in a percolator seasoning - the act of adding a seasoning to food cuisine, culinary art - the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared challah, hallah - (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking Jewish rye, Jewish rye bread - (Judaism) bread made with rye flour; usually contains caraway seeds curry - (East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice brown sauce, Chinese brown sauce - a sauce based on soy sauce caramelise, caramelize - convert to caramel caramelise, caramelize - be converted into caramel; "The sugar caramelized" alcoholise, alcoholize - make alcoholic, as by fermenting; "alcoholize prunes" alcoholise, alcoholize - treat or infuse with alcohol; "alcoholize the fruit and let them sit in the refrigerator" conserve - preserve with sugar; "Mom always conserved the strawberries we grew in the backyard" pickle - preserve in a pickling liquid salt - preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships" brine - soak in brine fortify - add nutrients to; "fortified milk" boil down, concentrate, reduce - cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time" boil down, decoct, concentrate, reduce - be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup" bake - cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven; "bake the potatoes" ovenbake - bake in an oven; "ovenbake this chicken" brown - fry in a pan until it changes color; "brown the meat in the pan" coddle - cook in nearly boiling water; "coddle eggs" fire - bake in a kiln so as to harden; "fire pottery" baste - cover with liquid before cooking; "baste a roast" souse - cook in a marinade; "souse herring" micro-cook, microwave, nuke, zap - cook or heat in a microwave oven; "You can microwave the leftovers" shirr - bake (eggs) in their shells until they are set; "shirr the eggs" overboil - boil excessively; "The peas are overboiled" fricassee - make a fricassee of by cooking; "fricassee meats" stew - cook slowly and for a long time in liquid; "Stew the vegetables in wine" jug - stew in an earthenware jug; "jug the rabbit" simmer - boil slowly at low temperature; "simmer the sauce"; "simmering water" roast - cook with dry heat, usually in an oven; "roast the turkey" |
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cookery
nounRelated words
adjective culinary
adjective culinary
Quotations
"Cookery has become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen" [Robert Burton Anatomy of Melancholy]
"If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong" [Tom Jaine, Editor of The Good Food Guide]
"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all" [Harriet Van Horne]
"Life is too short to stuff a mushroom" [Shirley Conran Superwoman]
"Cookery has become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen" [Robert Burton Anatomy of Melancholy]
"If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong" [Tom Jaine, Editor of The Good Food Guide]
"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all" [Harriet Van Horne]
"Life is too short to stuff a mushroom" [Shirley Conran Superwoman]
Cookery
General cookery terms à la king, à la mode, antipasto, au gratin, au jus, au lait, au naturel, bake, barbecue or (Austral. slang) barbie, bard or barde, baste, batter, blackened, blanch, boil, boil-in-the-bag, braise, broth, browning, caramelise, carbonado, casserole, caterer, chafing dish, char-grill, chasseur, chef, cobbler, coddle, colander, commis, confectioner, consommé, cook, cookbook or cookery book, cook-chill, corned, creole, cuisine, cuisine minceur, cured, curried, custard, dice, dough, dressing, en brochette, en croute, entrée, entremets, fajita, farci, fillet, flambé, flour, fondue, fricassee, fry, fumet, garnish, gelatine, ghee, giblets, glacé, glaze, goujon, goulash, grate, gravy, grill, hors d'oeuvre, ice, icing, jardinière, jerk, julienne, knead, ladle, lard, lardon or lardoon, leaven, liaison, luau, lyonnaise, macedoine, marengo, marinade, marinate, marmite, mask, mash, médaillons or medallions, meunière, meze, mirepoix, mornay, Newburg, nouvelle cuisine, offal, oven-ready, panada, parboil, Parmentier, paste, poach, potage, Provençale, purée, ragout, rijstaffel, rise, rissole, roast, roulade, roux, royal icing, salipicon, sauce, sauté, scramble, season, silver service, sippet, smoked, soup, steam, stew, stock, stroganoff, supreme, sweat, sweet-and-sour, tandoori, tenderize, teriyaki, tikka, timbale, topping, undressed, unleavened, unsmoked, whip, wholemeal or (chiefly U.S. and Canad.) wholewheat, wholemeal flour or (chiefly U.S. and Canad.) Graham flour, yeast
Cuisines and cooking styles balti, Cantonese, Caribbean, Californian, Chinese, cordon bleu, cuisine minceur, fast food, French, Greek, gutbürgerlich, halal, haute cuisine, home cooking, Indian, Indonesian, international, ital, Italian, Japanese, kosher, Malaysian, Mediterranean, Mexican, nouvelle cuisine, Provençal, seafood, Sichuan or Szechuan, tapas, Tex-Mex, Thai, Turkish, vegan, vegetarian
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Translations
فَـن الطَّـبْـخفَنُّ الطَّبْخ
kuchařstvíkuchařské umění
madlavning
ruoanlaitto
kuhanje
fõzõszakácsmûvészet
matargerî
料理法
요리법
kuchárstvo
kuhanjekuharstvo
matlagning
การปรุงอาหาร
aşçılıkyemek pişirme
nghệ thuật ẩm thực
cookery
[ˈkʊkərɪ]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
cookery
n → Kochen nt (also Sch), → Kochkunst f; French cookery → französische Küche; cookery classes → Kochkurs m, → Kochkurse pl
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
cook
(kuk) verb to prepare (food) or become ready by heating. She cooked the chicken; The chicken is cooking in the oven.
noun a person who cooks, especially for a living. She was employed as a cook at the embassy.
ˈcooker noun1. an apparatus on which food is cooked; a stove. She has an electric cooker.
2. an apple etc used in cooking, not for eating raw.
ˈcookery noun the art or practice of cooking food. She was taught cookery at school; (also adjective) cookery classes.
ˈcookery-book noun (American ˈcook-book) a book of instructions on how to prepare and cook various dishes.
cook up to invent or make up a false story etc. He cooked up a story about his car having broken down.
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cookery
→ فَنُّ الطَّبْخ kuchařství madlavning Kochen μαγειρική cocina ruoanlaitto cuisine kuhanje gastronomia 料理法 요리법 kookkunst kokekunst sztuka kulinarna culinária кулинария matlagning การปรุงอาหาร aşçılık nghệ thuật ẩm thực 烹调术Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009