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- adjective That can be
cooked ; suitable for cooking.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's a great read and -- for the real foodies among us -- eminently cookable.
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Every once in a lucky while, you find a cookbook that's entirely cookable.
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I figger, if it is available, it is cookable wherever you are in this wonderful word!
? Is it apropos .... 2004
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"I really think the kettle can be put in a cookable order, by taking off a coat or two of rust."
The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West
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It was neither cookable nor eatable; and their anger against Peckaby was not diminished by a certain fact which oozed out to them; namely, that Peckaby himself did not cut _his_
Verner's Pride Henry Wood 1850
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There was these non-cookable noodles called Explode, had a chicken exploding on the fron of the packet, came in pizza, oriental, salt and vineger and chicken.
Aussie-Nintendo.com Forums The Skooter Guy 2010
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Heat a biggish saucepan, pour in a tablespoon or so of oil, then chop up and throw in all cookable veggies -- cauliflower, spinach, mushrooms, the half carrot you didn't throw in the stir fry -- then pour in the simmer sauce.
BlogHer 2010
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For the enlightenment of those who are not so intimately acquainted with the minutiae of the municipal abattoir as this morbidminded esthete and embryo philosopher who for all his overweening bumptiousness in things scientific can scarcely distinguish an acid from an alkali prides himself on being, it should perhaps be stated that staggering bob in the vile parlance of our lowerclass licensed victuallers signifies the cookable and eatable flesh of a calf newly dropped from its mother.
Ulysses 2003
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This week, when the kids were faced with the dilemma of killing a chicken, but couldn’t fathom the first step towards actually making it edible, Frontier Greg chimed in that he worked with a butcher for a year, then proceeded to slaughter the chickens, place them in water to make the feathers easier to remove, pluck the chickens, strip them, gut them, and cut them up into cookable pieces.
Kid Nation Recap: Who Let The NARC Into Bonanza City? | Best Week Ever 2007
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For the enlightenment of those who are not so intimately acquainted with the minutiae of the municipal abattoir as this morbidminded esthete and embryo philosopher who for all his overweening bumptiousness in things scientific can scarcely distinguish an acid from an alkali prides himself on being, it should perhaps be stated that staggering bob in the vile parlance of our lowerclass licensed victuallers signifies the cookable and eatable flesh of a calf newly dropped from its mother.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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