Cookery

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cookery \Cook"er*y\ (k[oo^]k"[~e]r*[y^]), n.
     1. The art or process of preparing food for the table, by
        dressing, compounding, and the application of heat;
        cooking.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. A delicacy; a dainty. [Obs.] --R. North.
        [1913 Webster] Cookey

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cookery
       n : 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" [syn: {cooking}, {preparation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "cookery":
     bakehouse, bakery, baking, barbecuing, basting, boiling, braising,
     brewing, broil, broiling, burner, caboose, caliduct, camboose,
     catering, cooker, cookhouse, cooking, cookroom, cuisine,
     culinary science, domestic science, element, frying, furnace,
     galley, gas jet, grilling, heater, heating duct, home economics,
     jet, kitchen, kitchenette, nutrition, pan-broiling, pilot light,
     poaching, roasting, sauteing, scullery, searing, shirring,
     simmering, steam pipe, steeping, stewing, stove, tewel, toasting,
     tuyere, warmer