Recipe



A recipe is a set of instructions (an algorithm) that show how to prepare or make something, especially a culinary dish.

Modern culinary recipes normally consist of several components:

* The name (and often the locale or provenance) of the dish,

* How much time it will take to prepare the dish

* The required ingredients along with their quantity

* Equipment and environment needed to prepare the dish

* An ordered list of detailed preparation procedures (called Method).

* The number of servings that the dish will give.

* A rough estimate of the number of calories or joules contained per serving.

* A note on how long the dish will keep and its suitability for freezing.

In the early history of recipes, many of these components were omitted or reduced to a note that required oral instruction, some of which may only have the name and the ingredients of a dish.

Recipe writers sometimes also list variations of the traditional dish.

Recipe suggestions are welcome for the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Additional facts often included in recipes

Recipe writers often add additional facts about the recipe, and, depending upon who you are, they are considered redundant or essential.

Such facts may include the history of the dish, nutritional information, dietary information, 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 normally includes food energy, 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.

The composer Leonard Bernstein set four recipes to music in his set of songs, La Bonne Cuisine (1947).

Recipes