cookbook

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From cook + book; possibly also a calque of German Kochbuch, from kochen (“cook”) + Buch (“book”).

The needle and the cookbook are all that you need concern yourself with." — Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
She read the cookbook again and, like a child with a picture-book, she studied the diagram of the beef which gallantly continues to browse though it is divided into cuts. — Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
Once she went to her room and studied the cookbook during an entire evening, finally writing out a menu for the week, which left her harassed with a feeling that, after all, she had accomplished no good that was worth the name. — The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories, Kate Chopin

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