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cookery book

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cook⋅book

[kook-book]
–noun
a book containing recipes and instructions for cooking.
Also, British, cookery book.


Origin:
1800–10, Americanism; cook 1 + book
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cookery book  
n.   Chiefly British
A cookbook.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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cookery book

collection of recipes, instructions, and information about the preparation and serving of foods. At its best, a cookbook is also a chronicle and treasury of the fine art of cooking, an art whose masterpieces-created only to be consumed-would otherwise be lost

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