'Cookery' definitions:
Definition of 'cookery'
From: WordNet
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" [syn: cooking, cookery, preparation]
Definition of 'Cookery'
From: 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
Synonyms of 'cookery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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