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▪ I. cooking, vbl. n.|ˈkʊkɪŋ|
[f. cook v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb cook (lit. and fig.). spec. the process of preparing opium. Cf. cook v.1 2 d.
1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. 1738 I. 221 It is man's perverse cooking who hath turn'd this bounty of God into a Scorpion. 1815Hunt Feast of Poets 6 And will find ye all out with your cookings and cares. 1873H. Spencer Study of Sociol. vi. (1877) 121 ‘Cooking’ of railway accounts and financial prospectuses. 1887in Amer. Speech (1948) XXIII. 246/2 Watch the roller go through his routine of cooking.
2. concr. That which is cooked at one time; a meal. (Cf. baking vbl. n. 2.)
1804W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. II. 635 The rustic greediness of swallowing two cookings in a day.
3. attrib. and Comb.
a. cooking-apple, an apple suitable for cooking; cooking-range, a cooking-stove containing several openings for carrying on different operations at once; cooking-stove, a stove adapted for cooking.
c1813Mrs. Sherwood Ayah & Lady ix. 59 He was carried under the cooking-boat, and seen no more. 1817W. Coxe Fruit Trees 108 The Hagloe is an uncommonly fine cooking apple. 1819Shelley Cyclops 395 Then peeled his flesh with a great cooking knife. 1849Longfellow Kavanagh (1851) 412 Who wants to know about the cooking-range. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom xiii, A neat, well-blacked and shining cooking-stove. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xvi. 172 Our cooking-gear. 1875Jevons Money (1878) 9 Needful for cooking and drinking purposes. Mod. Gas cooking-stoves in great variety. 1893G. Meredith Let. 8 Nov. (1970) II. 1146 The cooking apples can't be surpassed. 1966Observer 30 Oct. 46/3, 4 lb. cooking-apples.
b. Used in the cooking of food, as cooking sherry, cooking soda; hence designating something of medium or average quality, as cooking bitter (beer).
1861Vanity Fair 2 Feb. 50/1 The servants..were forever..taking the cooking butter for the table. 1872Harper's Mag. XLVI. 28 This is genuine soda-water—cooking soda with nearly an equal amount of sulphate of soda, [etc.]. 1908A. Bennett Old Wives' Tale i. iii. 36 Cooking butter, to say naught of lard, was unknown in that kitchen. 1926–7Army & Navy Stores Catal. 94/2 Cooking Brandy (French)—Per doz. bots. 150/-. 1934Webster, Cooking sherry. 1939A. L. Simon Encycl. Gastronomy I. 4/1 A sweet sauce usually made with apricot jam, a little flour and some ‘cooking sherry’. 1940Economist 13 July 43/1 Tea, margarine and cooking fats are all to be rationed this month. 1951P. Branch Lion in Cellar i. 11 Not the best bitter..but the weaker one which she privately referred to as ‘cooking’. 1966R. Jeffries Death in Coverts i. 7 The last trump would sound before he ever offered even cooking brandy.
▸ cooking oil n.
1883Atlanta Constit. 15 July 10/3 We sell fresh Cotton Seed *Cooking Oil. 2000J. Cummings World Food: Thailand 141 Drop the mixture into a wok containing 2cm of very hot cooking oil.
▪ II. ˈcooking, ppl. a.
That cooks.
1874Rhind Hist. Vegetable Kingd. 186 Man who has been humorously defined to be a cooking animal. |