Associations to the word «Cookery»

Wiktionary

COOKERY, noun. The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
COOKERY, noun. (obsolete) A delicacy; a dainty.
COOKERY, noun. (obsolete) Cooking tools or apparatus.
COOKERY, noun. (figurative) Making something appear better than it is; altering or falsifying records; 'window dressing'.
COOKERY BOOK, noun. Cook book
COOKERY BOOKS, noun. Plural of cookery book

Dictionary definition

COOKERY, noun. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats