Example sentences for: cookery

How can you use “cookery” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Amelia Simmons' American Cookery in 1796 had a recipe “To alamode a round of Beef.”

  • ' In American Cookery we are told, “and then pour it upon your cucumbers and stive them down for twenty four hours.”

  • bilge ( n .) A variant of bulge . Simmon's American Cookery tells us, “Eggs put them into water, if they lye on their bilge, they are good and fresh.”

  • Simmons' American Cookery included a recipe “to pickle or make Mangoes of Melons.”

  • In Britain, the dictionary's “success is shown by the fact that more than 90 percent of households possess at least one, making the dictionary far more popular than cookery books (about 70 percent) and indeed significantly more widespread than the Bible (which was to be found in 80 percent of households in England in 1983, according to the Bible Society”).


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