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cookable, a. and n.|ˈkʊkəb(ə)l| [f. cook v.1 + -able.] A. adj. That can be cooked. B. n. Anything that may be cooked for food (cf. eatable).
1843‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase viii. 47 Next came a resolution that the ladies should prepare the cookables—i.e. stuff the chicken with filling—beat eggs for puddings, and the like. 1858Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. II. lxxii. 18 Canada will doubtless furnish some equally savoury cookable. 1884W. M. Williams in Pop. Sc. Monthly XXIV. No. 6. 773 All the cookable and eatable fats fall into the class ‘fixed oils.’ |