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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

"After 25 years of not writing cookery books because I was writing novels, I thought right, now I'm on Bake Off I'll do a cookery book," Prue said.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2017

"I love David Bowie more the older I grow. And his song Kooks is pretty much my parenting anthem," adds the cookery book writer Shauna James Ahern.

From BBC Jan. 11, 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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