cooking vs stewing

cooking

noun
  • One's ability to prepare food; cookery. 

  • The style or genre of food preparation. 

  • The process of preparing food by using heat. 

  • The cheapest available beer for sale in a public house; cooking bitter or cooking lager. 

  • An instance of preparing food by using heat. 

adj
  • Cheap; better suited for use in recipes than drinking. 

  • Designed for culinary purposes 

  • In progress, happening. 

stewing

noun
  • The act by which something is stewed. 

How often have the words cooking and stewing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )