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cookery book

British  
/ ˈkʊkˌbʊk /

noun

  1. a book containing recipes and instructions for cooking

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In the last recession I did a cookery book called "Save with Jamie" and "Money Saving Meals."

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2023

In the 1723 cookery book “The Cooks and Confectioners Dictionary,” the author John Nott shares a recipe for chicken breasts, in which the skins get lifted and stuffed with grated bacon, anchovies and herbs.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2021

In the 1675 cookery book The Queen-like Closet, author Hannah Woolley describes a suet pastry case, filled with butter, boiled in a pudding cloth and served with fruit.

From BBC • May 19, 2018

Again, I thought I’d used the cookery book writer’s iconic status as a way of understanding how a hugely expansionist Victorian Britain needed to lodge a particular reading of domesticity at its very heart.

From The Guardian • Feb. 6, 2016

A small treasure of a book hidden inside a big common one—like...spells printed on dragonfly wings, discovered tucked inside a cookery book, right between the recipes for cabbages and corn.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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