Cooken

Mr. Scott says Dr. Ayers treated them very nicely; he exhibited his fish, showed them how he fed them, caught a couple of fine ones and had them cooken for their dinner, and altogether entertained them in a very hospitable and courteous manner.

After they had cooken and eaten the fish, they noticed the dog doing strange things. They came to the conclusion that he had hydrophobia.

Re-fried beans, that oh-so-Mexican-sounding dish, is really beans re-cooked by frying. “You just take regular pinto beans that have been cooken with ham fat and mash them in the frying pan with a little oil until they are about the consistency of mashed potatoes,” she [Eleanor Irigaray] explained.

I was a-thinken, Sary, I’d hev to go to town an’ git a pile uv things—cups an’ sassers, an’ a broom, an’ a washbasin, an’ an ile lamp an’ some ile, an’ some cooken doens, an’ shirten, an’ a stone jug to carry water up to the clearen when I’m to work thar, an’ some hoss powders, an’ gardenen seeds, an’ a nice big stove with tin fixens, and cooken tricks; […]

“Y’ ain’t got no washen, ner nuffin fur me, hab y’?” said Souri, suddenly appearing before her. / “No! git out o’ hyar.” / “Any cooken?” / “Cooken. Can yer cook? […] I wish I had some un ter cook fur.” / “I’ll cook fur ’em.” […] “Hyar’s a gal,” said his wife, “ez hankers ter do some cooken fur me.”

“Mom, they ain’t no dressers, an no looken glass, but I bet they’s twenty chairs, all alike. An jist one table fer all our cooken an eaten.” […] “Here’s some corn bread to go with them beans. […] I had a little bacon grease, an put in a dab a cooken oil.”