broth being used with unleavened bread, and butter (Gen. xviii, 8) as a sauce for dipping morsels of bread into (Burokhardt, Notes, i, 63). Sometimes the meat was so highly spiced that its flavor could hardly be distin- guished : such dishes were called &'^)39I3^, matammim' (Gen. xxvii, 4 ; Prov. xxiii, 8). There is a striking similari^ in the culinary operations of the Hebrews and Egyptians (Wilkinson's Anc, Egypt, ii, 874 sq.). Veg- etables were usually boiled, and served up pottage (Gen. xxv, 29 ; 2 Kings iv, 38). Fish was also cooked (Luke xxiv, 42), prob- ably broiled. The cooking was in early times performed by the mistress of the house- l)old (Gen. xviii, 6); professional cooks were afterwards employed (1 Sam. viii, 18 ; ix, 28). The utensils required were : fi^^*'^, kira'jfkn (Sept. xwpoiro^«c ; Vulg. chytropo- de»\ a cooking range, having places for two or more pots, probably of earthenware (Lev. xi, 86); ^i*s, A^or' (X«/3»?c, &&«»), » caldron (1 Sam. >*» 14); A to, mcaU^ (xpioypa ; ffueinula), a large fork or flesh-hook ; ^'^p, sir (XsPnc ; olla\ a wide, open met- al vessel, resembling a fish-kettle, adapted to be used as a wash-pot (Psa. Ix, 8) or to eat from (Exod. xvi, 3); ^!|^B,iHini/; *«% dud; nnip, faflocA'crfA, pots probably of earthenware and high, but how differing fr^m each other does not appear ; and, lastly, nil^2C, tsaUach'ath, or r'^nibx, tselochitk', dishes (2 Kings ii, 20; xxi,18; Prov.'xix', 24 ; A. V. * bosom'). "—Smith, s. V. The Cia?*;?, rt'tseph (fem. MBS*i), was, accord- ing to Gesenins, a hat stone, used for baking on ; or, as Winer thinks (in Sfanonis Lex, p. 926), for cooking milk or broth, by throwing it into the vessel ; but
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Cook, Charles, D.D., one of the founders of French Methodi«m, was bom in London, May 81, 1787. Skeptical in youth, he was converted at tjrenty-one, chiefly under the instruction of the Rev. Jacob Stan- ley. After spending a few years as tutor in a semi- nary, he entered the ministry of the Wesleyan Meth- odist Church in 1817. In 1818 he was sent to France, and commenced his ministry at Caen, in Normandy. He soon acquired a good French style, both in writing and speaking, and became eminenUy popular and use- ful as an evangelist. The Sunday-school Society and Bible Society were ori^ated chiefly through the im- pulse given by him. In numerous evangelical jour- neys, especially in the south of France, he preached in the Reformed churches with great acceptance, and revivals of religion followed his labors. His admin- istrative talent was very great. Merle d'Aubign^, in a letter to M. Gallienne, president of the French Con- ference, says that Cook "was to France, Switzerland, and Sardinia what Wesley was in his day to England.'* He died Feb. 21, 1868.— J. P. Cook, Vie de CharUs Cook (Paris, 1862) ; Stevens, History ofMethodum,
Cook, RuBsell S., an American Congregational clergyman, was bom in New Marlborough, Mass., March 6, 1811. After being for a short time in a law- yer*s oflice, he studied theolo^ at the Theological Seminaiy at Aubum. In 1836 he was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Lanesboro, Mass. In 1889 he was elected secretary of the American Tract Society, in which office he remained until 1856, when failing health obliged him to retire. He wHs a regu- lar contributor to the American Messenger^ the month- ly or^n of the society ; and to his labor the develop- ment of the colportage system was greatly due. After a visit to Europe in 1866, he in 1867 became the sec- retary of the Sabbath Committee in New York, and in 1868 he added to his work on this committee several weeks of exhausting labor in organizing and energiz- ing the Christian Commission in New York. He died at Pleasant Valley, near Poujrhkeepsie, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1864.— See Anmcd American Cyclop, for 1864, p. 354.
Cook, Valentine, a Methodist Episcopal minis- ter. He was bom in Pennsylvania (date wanting), of pious and cultivated parents; removed early to Western Virginia ; was converted in youth ; entered Cokesbuiy College while a boy, where he was one of the four boys placed on the charity foundation, and, after a partial course in 1787, entered the itinerant min- istry in 1788. In 1794-7 he was presiding elder on Philadelphia and Pittsburg districts ; and in 1798, mis- sionaiy to Kentucky. In 1799 he took charge of Bethel
Seminary, the second Methodist literary iDStitBtkflil America; afterwards was some time princqial of H| rodsburg Academy, and finally removed ta a teM b| Russelville, Logan Co., Ky., where he rerided d his death. In his youth he was very stud serious, and became in subsequent life a good «« scholar. He had great reputation as an eloqoest effective minister. Many were converted by his pR.i,. ing, and his influence was widelv extended.— Sten son, Lift qfCook (NashviUe, 1866, 12mo); MeM Quart. Rev, April, 1869, p. 183 ; Geo. Peck, D.D., £4 MetkodUm (N. Y. 1860, 12mo, p. 71, 72, 86); Spia^ AnnaU^ vii, 161 ; Summers, Biograph, SkeiHet^ p. 1|
Cooke, Pabbovs, D.D., an American Congre tional mhiister, was bom in Hadley, Mass., m 1^ He was educated at Williams College, where he gn nated in 1821. In 1826 he was ordained as pastor the Congregational church in Ware, Mass. Affc» d tinning in this pastorate for ten or eleven yetr«, became pastor of the First Congregational church Lynn, Mass., with which he remained nntil his <ki| a period of twenty-eight years. While pastor at Lj he established the "New England Puritan," wbi after some time, was united with the " Recordn"/* I der the name of the ** Puritan Recorder," which was later changed to that of the *< Boston Records; of which Mr. Cooke became, and remained until )ai death, the senior editor. In 1829 he published a sa- mon on The Exduriveness of Umtariamem, and after- wards several other controversial writings. He &d at Lynn, Feb. 12, 1864.— See Awual AmericoM Cr^^ for 1864, p. 866.