Recipe

Definition: Recipe

Recipe

Noun

1. Directions for making something.

Date "recipe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Recipe \Rec"i*pe\, noun; plural Recipes. [Latin expression, imperative of recipere to take back, take in, receive. See Receive.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: Recipe

Domain	Definition
Computing	Recipe suspension. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Literature	Recipe (3 syl.), ~~~Receipt. Receipt. Recipe is Latin for take, and contracted into R is used in doctor's prescriptions. The dash through the R is an abbreviated form of, the symbol of Jupiter, and R means Recipe, deo volente. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Tips from 1870	Usage: Recipe, Receipt. A recipe is a formula for making some mixture or preparation of materials; a receipt is an acknowledgment of that which has been received. Source: Slips of Speech.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Recipe

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A recipe is a set of instructions that show how to prepare a culinary dish. It normally consists of four or five components: the name of the dish, the ingredients, preparation techniques and the number of servings. Recipe writers sometimes also list variations of the traditional dish.

A sample recipe

Title:
Fried eggs
Ingredients:
Three large eggs
2 teaspoons of butter (or olive oil)
Detailed Procedures:
In a small (10") frying pan over medium heat, melt the butter. Crack open the eggs into the pan and let fry until the yolks begin to harden at the edges (indicated by a lightening in the yolk color). Flip the eggs and allow to cook for one minute. Serve with salt and pepper.
Serves:
One
Variations:
Cover pan with a lid and continue cooking until yolk obscured by cooked egg white.
Sprinkle with grated parmesan.
Other considerations
Some notable features of the sample recipe include:
Ingredients listed in order.
Pan size specified.
Cooking temperature specified.
Criteria for cooking time (until yolks set)
What else might be included

Special handling requirements (how are eggs or butter stored? At what temperature should they be when cooking starts?)
Garnishing or serving advice (add a sprig of parsley for color).

Additional facts often included in recipes
Recipe writers often add additional facts that are not properly part of the recipe. The history of the dish, for example, or philosophical ramblings about the soul-enriching or health-benefiting properties of the dish, or what wonderful hostess in what particular town first served the dish to the author. Nutritional information is often included as well, including calories, vitamin content, fat content, etc.

Where are recipes to be found
People have written recipes as recipe cards, recipe books, recipes worked into needlepoint, and computer recipe databases, among others. Take notes when making your favorite dish and share your recipe in the list of recipes.
The composer Leonard Bernstein set four recipes to music in his set of songs, La Bonne Cuisine (1947).

Outside links

http://www.stratsplace.com/rogov/art_writing_recipes.html A history of recipe writing, an analysis of contemporary recipe styles, and a treatise on what constitutes a well-written recipe.
http://www.anthus.com/Recipes/CompCook.html An analysis of recipe styles, including 14 familiar styles and some unfamiliar computer software styles. Mundie, the author, is a recipe purist who discusses what does and does not belong in a recipe.
http://home.snafu.de/gadfly/Veggie.htm Veggie Life Magazine has published their guidelines for writing recipes. Almost all professional cooking publications have similar guidelines.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Recipe."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Recipe

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
rec.	English	Recipe	Medicine
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Recipe

Synonym: formula (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Recipe

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Precept	Noun: precept, direction, instruction, charge; prescript, prescription; recipe, receipt; golden rule; maxim.
Remedy	Nostrum, receipt, recipe, prescription; catholicon, panacea, elixir, elixir vitae, philosopher's stone; balm, balsam, cordial, theriac, ptisan.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Recipe

English words defined with "recipe": break up ♦ catchy ♦ dissolve ♦ fail-safe ♦ makings ♦ Recipes, resolve ♦ tricky. (references)

Specialty definitions using "recipe": CHEF DE FROID, COOK, SPECIALTY ♦ director of consumer services ♦ Jelly Pardons ♦ nutrition consultant ♦ rarebit ♦ TESTER, FOOD PRODUCTS. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Recipe" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (recipe, take!).

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Modern Usage: Recipe

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Onions well, it's an old recipe. (Track of the Moon Beast; writing credit: Bill Finger; Charles Sinclair) I just went to my old apartment to get you the, the cookie recipe, and that stupid fire burned it up. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) Grandma, I can't believe you found the recipe for Beefaroni (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) I got a recipe for snake (Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior; writing credit: Terry Hayes; George Miller) Grandpa Got This Recipe from a Dear Friend of his. (The Munsters; writing credit: Tom Adair; James B. Allardice)
Lyrics	I'll show you my best recipe (RAISED ON ROBBERY; performing artist: Joni Mitchell) Hey i know it's just a song but it's spice for the recipe (WALKIN' ON THE SUN; performing artist: Smash Mouth)
Movie/TV Titles	Recipe for Disaster (2002) Kakutou ryouri densetsu bistro recipe (2001) Recipe for Disaster (2000) Secret Recipe (1991)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Recipe

Domain	Title
References	The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Chinese Recipe Cooking Sauces (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	American Classics (The Best Recipe Series) (reference) Italian Classics (The Best Recipe Series) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Betty Crocker Recipe Magazine (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	A Recipe for Food Safety Success - Spanish (reference) Recipe for Good Health (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	A Recipe for Disaster (reference) Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul/Have a Smile With Me (reference) Recipe for Hate (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	KichenCalc 8305 PRO Master Chef Edition Recipe Conversion Calculator with Dual Digital Timer (reference) KitchenCalc 8300 Recipe Calculator with Digital Timer (reference) Once Upon a Recipe Egg Timer (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Recipe

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Photo Album: Recipe

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Mixing a Recipe for Corns / G. C[ruikshank]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		"I'll prove the tarts are really mine," the Queen said. "Wait and see. I'll cook his goose when I produce my private recipe". Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Recipe

Author	Quotation
Charles Lamb	The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Elbert Hubbard	The recipe for perpetual ignorance: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Jane Austen	A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Leon Gambetta	The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.
Thomas Jefferson	A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Recipe

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Then gave me recipe for what he calls risotto alla bergamasca
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	It would seem that I made it according to the recipe which Marcus Porcius Cato gave about two centuries before Christ
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Recipe

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Some of the companies that make these diet supplements have recipe booklets to help you increase your nutrient intake. (references)
Economic History	Russia	This is a recipe for disaster. (references)
Human Rights	India	Human rights groups say that the PSA's sweeping powers, combined with a prisoner's lack of access to family members or to a lawyer, lead to a recipe for abuse. (references)
Political Economy	Georgia	His recipe for stability, however -- the policy of carefully balancing disparate ideological and economic, including corrupt, interests -- is now seen by many, including many of Georgia's emerging young, western-oriented elite, as inadequate to deal with Georgia's internal problems. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	RAREBIT, n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau a la financiere is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Recipe

"Recipe" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.92% of the time. "Recipe" is used about 1,206 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.92%	1,205	6,437
Noun (proper)	0.08%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	1,206	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Recipe

Expressions using "recipe": after your recipe ♦ recipe book. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Recipe

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
recipe	74,447	cooking recipe	1,791
chicken recipe	4,493	ice cream recipe	1,742
crock pot recipe	4,338	smoothie recipe	1,728
low carb recipe	4,204	salmon recipe	1,694
drink recipe	3,097	salad recipe	1,687
mexican recipe	2,870	fish recipe	1,618
food recipe	2,655	easy recipe	1,451
italian recipe	2,512	seafood recipe	1,436
low fat recipe	2,499	4th of july recipe	1,434
vegetarian recipe	2,423	meat loaf recipe	1,426
healthy recipe	2,410	cheesecake recipe	1,372
cake recipe	2,356	martha stewart recipe	1,314
cookie recipe	2,278	restaurant recipe	1,291
chinese recipe	2,253	thai recipe	1,263
weight watcher recipe	2,067	turkey recipe	1,242
dessert recipe	2,019	spanish recipe	1,200
barbecue recipe	1,961	shrimp recipe	1,164
indian recipe	1,927	recipe salsa	1,153
diabetic recipe	1,925	top secret recipe	1,133
free recipe	1,844	french recipe	1,096
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Recipe

Language		Translations for "recipe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		resep (prescription). (various references)

Albanian		recetë (formula, prescription, reader), mjet (agent, apparatus, device, engine, expedient, implement, instrument, intermedium, mean, means, medium, mode, modus, route, tool, touch, vehicle, wherewithal). (various references)

Arabic		‏وصفة طعام, ‏وصفة طبية (formula, prescription), ‏طريقة إجراء, ‏صيغة لإعداد طبخة. (various references)

Bulgarian		рецепта (formula, prescription). (various references)

Catalan		recepta (prescription). (various references)

Chinese		食譜 (cookbook, cookery book), 处方 (Prescription, Recipes). (various references)

Czech		recept (formula, prescription, receipt), návod (direction, instruction, leaflet). (various references)

Dutch		recept (prescription). (various references)

Esperanto		recepto (prescription). (various references)

Farsi		خوراک دستور, دستورخوراک پزی , دستورالعمل . (various references)

Finnish		resepti (prescription), ohje (direction, directive, instruction, precept, rule). (various references)

French		recette (receipts, reception room), ordonnance (receipt). (various references)

German		Rezept (cure, formula, prescription, remedy). (various references)

Greek		συνταγή (formula, pension, prescription). (various references)

Hebrew		מתכון (formula, prescription, receipt). (various references)

Hungarian		rendelvény, recept ételé, recept (formula, formulae, prescription, receipt), elõírás (imposition, manual, observance, ordinance, precept, prescript, prescription, regulation, rule). (various references)

Indonesian		resep (prescription). (various references)

Italian		ricetta (formula, prescription). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		製法 (formula, manufacturing method), 料理法 , 作り方 (construction, how to grow, style of building, way of making, workmanship). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		つくりかた (construction, how to grow, style of building, way of making, workmanship), せいほう (formula, manufacturing method, square, western direction), りょうりほう. (various references)

Korean		조리법 (Recipes). (various references)

Manx		oijys. (various references)

Norwegian		resept (prescription). (various references)

Pig Latin		eciperay.(various references)

Portuguese		receita (income, incoming, prescription, receipt, revenue), fórmula (formula, prescription, receipt). (various references)

Romanian		remediu (cure, help, medicine, receipt, remedy, resource, salve), receptiv (acquisitive, alive, apprehensive, nimble, open minded, perceptively, pervious, receptive), reţetå (prescription), reţetã (device, prescription, receipt). (various references)

Russian		рецепт (formula, prescript, prescription, receipt). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		recept (prescription). (various references)

Sicilian		ricetta. (various references)

Spanish		receta (prescription). (various references)

Swedish		recept (formula, perscriptions, prescription, receipts). (various references)

Turkish		reçete (cure, formula, prescription, receipt), yemek tarifi (receipt), tarife (price list, prospectus, receipt, scale, schedule, statement, tariff, timetable). (various references)

Turkmen		retsept (r). (various references)

Ukrainian		рецепт (bill, formula, prescription, receipt), засіб (agency, channel, instrumentality, means, route, way). (various references)

Vietnamese		thuốc pha chế theo đơn, thuốc bốc theo đơn phương pháp, món ăn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Recipe

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	recipe. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Recipe

Derivations
	Words beginning with "recipe": recipes. (additional references)
	Words ending with "recipe": precipe. (additional references)
	Words containing "recipe": precipes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Recipe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arecibo, Arrecife, arsewipe, ecip, eripe, Necip, praecipe, precip, Rakipov, rcipe, recane, recase, receipe, receipi, Recep, recepe, recepee, reci, recibe, reciep, reciepe, recile, recipee, recipi, recipie, recips, recipt, recipte, recipy, recive, recompe, recpie, recup, recypy, redip, reice, Resampa, rescape, resipe, Resipol, respice, retipe, Rokupa, Rorippa. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Recipe"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "recipe" (pronounced re"supē)
4	-s u p ē	gossipy.
3	-u p ē	canopy, chemotherapy, laparoscopy, entropy, hydrotherapy, immunotherapy, microscopy, philanthropy, psychotherapy, spectroscopy, therapy.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Recipe

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: piecer, pierce.
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-p-r"
	-1 letter: creep, crepe, cripe, piece, price.
	-2 letters: cepe, cere, cire, epic, peer, peri, pice, pier, pree, rice, ripe.
	-3 letters: cee, cep, ere, ice, ire, pec, pee, per, pic, pie, rec, ree, rei, rep, rip.
	-4 letters: er, pe, pi, re.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-p-r"
	+1 letter: creepie, crepier, epeiric, epicure, peckier, pickeer, piecers, pierced, piercer, pierces, precipe, precise, receipt, recipes, reprice.
	+2 letters: ciphered, creepier, creepies, creepily, creeping, crepiest, decipher, decrepit, depicter, earpiece, encipher, epicures, epimeric, herpetic, peachier, pedicure, penciler, perceive, pericope, pickeers, pickerel, picketer, piercers, praecipe, precieux, precipes, precised, preciser, precises, precited, premedic, prentice, preprice, preslice, receipts, recopied, recopies, repriced, reprices, resplice, terpenic.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern

5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar

9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions

13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Translations: Ancient
16. Abbreviations

17. Acronyms
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams

21. Bibliography

Recipe

Definition: Recipe

Recipe

Noun

Specialty Definition: Recipe

Specialty Definition: Recipe

Other considerations

What else might be included

Additional facts often included in recipes

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Recipe

Synonym: Recipe

Synonyms within Context: Recipe

Precept

Remedy

Crosswords: Recipe

Modern Usage: Recipe

Screenplays

Lyrics

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Recipe

References

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

Music

Consumer Goods

Image Slideshow: Recipe

Illustrations:Recipe

Computer Images:Recipe

Photo Album: Recipe

Familiar Quotations: Recipe

Charles Lamb

Elbert Hubbard

Jane Austen

Leon Gambetta

Thomas Jefferson

Use in Literature: Recipe

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Recipe

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Usage Frequency: Recipe

Expressions: Recipe

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Recipe

Modern Translation: Recipe

Afrikaans

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

Catalan

Chinese

Czech

Dutch

Esperanto

Farsi

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Korean

Manx

Norwegian

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Sicilian

Spanish

Swedish

Turkish

Illustrations:
Recipe

Computer Images:
Recipe