different between recipe vs cookery

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French récipé, from Latin recipe, second person singular imperative of Latin recipi? (“receive”). Compare receipt.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /???s.?.pi/, /???s.?.pi/

Noun

recipe (plural recipes)

1. (medicine, archaic) A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions. [from 16th c.]
2. Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients. [from 17th c.]
3. By extension, a plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription. [from 17th c.]

4. Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes. [from 18th c.]
5. A set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.

Translations

Anagrams

• Peirce, Pierce, piecer, pierce

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?tsi.pe/

Verb

recipe

1. present of reciper
2. imperative of reciper

Latin

Verb

recipe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of recipi?

References

• recipe in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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