cooking

The process of preparing food by using heat.

The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]

The cooking took a long time. Fionn built a spit from the ash that the salmon had knocked down.

An instance of preparing food by using heat.

In the tiny kitchen a dozen men and a boy tried to hush their breathing, and sweltered. For it was very hot, and the pent-up odor of past cookings was stifling to men used to the open

This culinary process is but the first in a series of cookings, of which the intracorporeal cookings constitute the rest.

The result of preparing food by using heat.

My cooking isn't very good. I don't have any idea how to prepare a good meal.

I missed my mum's cooking while I was at university.

The result of preparing food by using heat.

What you've produced is a perfect example of authentic Chinese cooking.

One of the most common styles of Japanese cooking is called nimono.

The cheapest available beer for sale in a public house.

‘Pint of bitter, please,” said Reggie. ‘Pint of cooking,” said the landlord.

Designed or suitable for culinary purposes.

I filled the cooking pot with water.

This tree bears cooking apples.

In progress, happening.

The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking.

Cheap; better suited for use in recipes than drinking.

Bone a shoulder of mutton and lay in the following pickle for 24 hours, viz.:…half pint of cooking claret…and long peppers.

JOHN JASPER: Mama says for you to come on upstairs and bring her a pint of cooking sherry. BODIDDLY: You know your Mama ain’t gonna do no cooking this time of the night!