different between crookery vs cookery

English

Etymology

crook +? -ery

Noun

crookery (countable and uncountable, plural crookeries)

1. The activities of crooks; crime.
   • 1959, Roald Dahl, Parson's Pleasure

     It was always intriguing to hear about some new form of crookery or deception.

   • 2008, Alistair Cooke, Alistair Cooke's America

     What the people never knew at the time was the scale and audacity of the crookeries of Harding's advisers. In 1923 the Senate investigated 'irregularities' in the Veterans' Bureau. It had been defrauded of tidy sums by its chief […]

English

Etymology

From Middle English cokerie, kokery, equivalent to cook +? -ery.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?k??i/

Noun

cookery (countable and uncountable, plural cookeries)

1. The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.

   Synonym: cooking

   Henry was not very good at cookery and most of his meals ended up burned.

   • 1475, Kenelm Digby, The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened, subtitle:

     together with excellent directions for cookery, as also for preserving, conserving, candying, &c.

2. (obsolete) A delicacy; a dainty.
   • 1839, John Espy Lovell, "Fish out of water", Rhetorical Dialogues, page 335:

     I've got a bit of cookery that will astonish him — my marinated pheasants' poults a la braise imperiale.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of R. North to this entry?)

3. (obsolete) Cooking tools or apparatus.

Synonyms

• (art of preparing food): See culinary art