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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
recipe
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cake recipe
▪ Do you have any good cake recipes?
be a recipe for disaster (=be a situation that is very likely to end badly)
▪ If you get married too young, it’s a recipe for disaster.
secret ingredient/recipe/formula
▪ The cookies are made to a secret recipe.
surefire recipe
▪ a surefire recipe for success
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
basic
▪ The basic recipe uses twice as much oil as vinegar.
▪ The book offers basic recipes for making the stock and tips for improving the flavor of canned broths.
▪ My basic recipe is chicken broth and Weetabix.
▪ There are cross-references to the basic recipes at the beginning of the book where appropriate.
favourite
▪ Gather together favourite recipes, make them into a booklet and sell for funds.
▪ The following is a selection of my favourite pasta sauce recipes.
▪ They sent their favourite recipe to a group of schoolchildren.
▪ I have made a selection of my favourite bean cuisine recipes that include dried and canned pulses.
following
▪ The following recipes all include potatoes.
▪ The following recipes are quick to prepare and very low in calories.
▪ So don't go nuts - use those leftovers in the following recipes.
good
▪ The Good Food Fast recipes on page 143 provide warming ideas to please vegetarians and meat-eaters alike.
▪ There are some good off-beat recipes too.
▪ Savoury filo recipes next week; then we want the best recipe for game-bird stuffings.
▪ Experience suggests there's no better recipe for successful study than regular, patterned activity.
▪ A specially good recipe within my family is the combination of fresh pineapple cubes with fruit mincemeat.
▪ What better recipe for a gardener faced with a plot full of weeds this Easter?
new
▪ Radio 1's new recipe: hold the Mayo!
▪ I know many people who are amazingly content if they can get one new recipe from their latest expensive cookbook.
▪ She persisted in her relationship with the new recipe book; the kitchen at Greystones was filled with strange aromas.
▪ Send off now - 140 delicious new recipes are waiting for you.
▪ More than 275,000 recipe leaflets have been produced and mailed to key catering customers, giving eight new recipe ideas.
▪ You might try a new recipe and find it awful.
▪ Food writer Joy Davies spent 1987 travelling in search of exotic new recipes.
▪ It meant the development of new dye recipes, one for each colour.
old
▪ The centuries' old recipe has been handed down from father to son.
▪ It was an old recipe, nearly forgotten, but one that had always brought raves.
▪ Writers of old recipes often claimed that lemon curd keeps for years.
original
▪ Pimm's is produced to the original unique recipe and bottled at Laindon.
▪ Kremer bistre ink is made to an original recipe and has a deep transparent brown colour.
▪ Care has been taken to ensure that these original recipes are nutritionally balanced.
▪ And to this day Amaretto is made to the original recipe of apricot kernels, almonds and brandy.
▪ Add to the flour and continue as in the original recipe.
secret
▪ No one has ever discovered the secret recipe for army tea.
▪ Is there some secret recipe for roasting whole potatoes?
▪ He is Dieter Schmidt and his secret recipe keeps him awake for the 20-hour flights.
simple
▪ Persuading such women to turn out in November sounds like a simple recipe for re-election.
▪ It is a very simple recipe in terms of ingredients, but the method of cooking is extremely important.
▪ Here are some simple Christmas recipes from around the world for you to try.
▪ This is a simple recipe and can be used with almost any meat.
▪ A seemingly simple recipe for a secure investment has, however, developed complications worthy of a 007 plot.
▪ Two simple recipes are included for the teacher in Appendix B on page 94.
▪ Try these simple recipes for yourself.
traditional
▪ Cleaning the beat meant fitting each new situation into past patterns, trying to handle them according to traditional recipes.
▪ Note: This is a traditional Southern recipe that can be served as a side dish or dessert.
▪ The traditional Emilian recipe does not add water.
▪ I have just given you the traditional quantum mechanical recipe for calculating probabilities.
■ NOUN
book
▪ Our recipe book is the Book of Fate, to be interpreted wisely and with some imagination.
▪ She had bought a recipe book and was attempting a rather complex casserole, involving red wine and many ingredients.
▪ The recipe book lay on the table.
▪ The biscuit tin supported the open recipe book.
▪ She held the feeling in tight, she squashed it down under the heavy pasteboard covers of the recipe book.
▪ There were some food items to be bought; she was persisting, doggedly, with the recipe book.
▪ Elinor Fettiplace's recipe book of 1604 contains another Lenten delicacy - almond cakes which were sweetened with aniseed.
cake
▪ This has to be one of the easiest-to-make Christmas cake recipes ever.
▪ Many cake recipes call for all-purpose flour, but those that suggest cake flour do so for a reason.
■ VERB
adapt
▪ But instead of adapting the whole recipe at once, we fiddled with one ingredient at a time.
▪ Taking careful note, Zahler then adapted the recipes for the home cook and put together this beguiling book.
add
▪ You can add categories and recipes at the touch of a button.
▪ Conscientious about nutrition, Wait said he added fruit to his recipe to increase moisture and decrease the fat content.
▪ To gain the maximum flavour, always mix mustard powder to a paste before adding it to recipes.
▪ Nutrition information is available for existing recipes and can be figured for any added recipe.
based
▪ The sauce is rich and hearty, a tomato-#based recipe with a gentle kick.
cook
▪ I like to cook recipes that foolproof, able to wait or take a moment to finish before serving.
▪ Another chore that once was fun: cooking favorite recipes for Claire.
develop
▪ The Institute is made up of three departments: Cookery, which devises, develops and double-tests every recipe featured.
find
▪ Gougére for supper, she sang out: Thérèse, find the recipe for me.
▪ She has not been able to find this recipe.
▪ I found one recipe for it but when I made it the center fell in.
▪ I found a recipe for it, but when I put it in the pan, it falls in the center.
▪ Please help me find a recipe for Sweet Potato Pudding.
follow
▪ My experience is that even when you follow the recipe there is an element of chance.
▪ I can follow a recipe pretty well.
▪ The following recipe uses this blend to create a loyal, hearty, and enjoyable bread.
▪ It was enough that I could follow the math recipes and could use the rules.
▪ They know how to follow recipes, double recipes, and halve recipes.
▪ The following recipes might serve as a useful starting point for those who want to try smoking game.
▪ The following recipe is a good all-purpose chestnut puree.
▪ Some of the following recipes may yield more muffins than you care to bake.
include
▪ For traditionalists, Marks has included all the familiar recipes as well.
▪ The chocolate recipes are particularly inspiring, but the book also includes a bundle of recipes featuring all manner of fruit.
prepare
▪ This enables the chef to plan delicate, difficult to prepare recipes in large quantities using traditional equipment.
▪ Allow 5 days to prepare this recipe.
provide
▪ Everyone, from stall holders to waiters, was eager to provide recipes and tips.
▪ The program also provides recipes, a shopping list, estimated meal costs and a nutritional analysis of the recipes.
▪ Martin Blunos of Restaurant Lettonie in Bristol provided the rabbit recipe, using grain mustard.
▪ This linking of the human relations approach with scientific management targets will provide the recipe for effective performance.
request
▪ She also keeps her own cookbook on her computer, to make it easier to copy requested recipes.
see
▪ Obviously, his appointment was a fix but the Homstat-Pybus partnership was seen as a surefire recipe for success.
▪ As you see, the perfect recipe for gang warfare.
send
▪ He says Sue Townsend sent us a recipe from Adrian Mole.
▪ Y., sent in very similar recipes.
▪ They sent their favourite recipe to a group of schoolchildren.
▪ She sent along the recipe Kaminski was seeking.
serve
▪ You only need about 4g per serving in a recipe.
try
▪ You might try a new recipe and find it awful.
▪ I was inspired to try more recipes from this book than from any of the others.
▪ For a lighter vegetarian meal, try the delicious quiche recipe created by Roselyne Masselin, who draws for inspiration.
▪ To which she would gush some vaguely affirmative reply and vanish back into the kitchen to try the recipe.
▪ I got them to try all the recipes in the book - even a mouthful of chitterlings.
▪ Every letter I receive from her contains a recommendation to try this or that recipe.
▪ But the proof is in the curry. Try these simple recipes for yourself.
▪ What's happening is that the Benn family have decided to try to recover the recipe from the sample already made up.
use
▪ And all this is in addition to the calories you will be shedding by using the low fat recipes in the Walking Diet.
▪ Understanding the characteristics of each lets the cook choose the best type to use in any recipe.
want
▪ Savoury filo recipes next week; then we want the best recipe for game-bird stuffings.
▪ Y., wants two recipes.
▪ She also wants a mincemeat cookie recipe which she saw in a cookbook some 30 years ago.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Could you give me the recipe for that chocolate cake?
▪ I'm not a great cook, but I can follow a recipe pretty well.
▪ I've found a really great recipe for barbecue sauce.
▪ My Mum has the recipe for a really delicious prawn curry.
▪ rabbit pie made to a traditional country recipe
▪ This soup is really good - you must give me the recipe.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Breadcrumb recipes are welcome but why not stretch to bulgur, rice, millet?
▪ Commercial sauerkraut is very salty so there is no additional salt in the recipe.
▪ It might be difficult, very difficult, to reproduce the recipe exactly.
▪ Nutrition information is available for existing recipes and can be figured for any added recipe.
▪ Remember, nothing here is offered as a blueprint or recipe.
▪ The recipes of each sound temptingly exotic and very original.
▪ The 45 recipes, developed and explained by Bird, are relatively simple.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recipe

Recipe \Rec"i*pe\ (r[e^]s"[i^]*p[-e]), n.; pl. Recipes (r[e^]s"[i^]*p[=e]z). [L., imperative of recipere to take back, take in, receive. See Receive.] A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt.

2. a prescription for medicine. [archaic]

2. a prescription for medicine. [archaic]

3. a set of directions for preparing food from its ingredients.

4. a method or procedure for accomplishing a goal by defined steps; -- implying a high probability of achieving the goal; as, a recipe for success. Also used in a negative sense, as, a recipe for disaster.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recipe

1580s, "medical prescription," from Middle French récipé (15c.), from Latin recipe "take!," second person imperative singular of recipere "to take" (see receive); word written by physicians at the head of prescriptions. Figurative use from 1640s. Meaning "instructions for preparing food" first recorded 1743. The original sense survives only in the pharmacist's abbreviation Rx.

Wiktionary
recipe

n. (label en medicine archaic) A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions. (from 16th c.)

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WordNet
recipe

n. directions for making something [syn: formula]

Wikipedia
Recipe

A recipe is a set of instructions that describes how to prepare or make something, especially a culinary dish. It is also used in medicine or in information technology (user acceptance). A doctor will usually begin a prescription with recipe, usually abbreviated to Rx or an equivalent symbol.

Usage examples of "recipe".

Various recipes in this book call for wine vinegar, cider vinegar, rice vinegar, tarragon vinegar, white vinegar, and balsamic vinegar.

This last recipe is for the extraction of hashish from marihuana, but in the Middle Eastern countries, where they can afford it, there is another method for the preparation of hash.

It must have been ten minutes later, not more, and I had been having QUITE an enjoyable chat with my hostess, and had promised to lend her The Eternal City and my recipe for rabbit mayonnaise, and was just about to offer a kind home for her third Persian kitten, when I perceived, out of the corner of my eye, that Reginald was not where I had left him, and that the marrons glaces were untasted.

Hand to hand in a small room with my cousin Moric was a recipe for quick death.

They were so old that recipes called for a pennyweight of raisins and began the instructions for roasting a chicken with a nauseatingly detailed lesson on how to pluck and gut it.

Denville did not, after all, visit her prodigal son before breakfast, being strongly urged by Kit not to do so, on the grounds that she would in all probability wake him from a deep sleep, induced partly by exhaustion, and partly by a posset brewed by Nurse Pinner from some recipe known only to herself.

The basic recipe and variations provided here do not begin to cover the many ways to saute squid.

The duck in this recipe is simmered with fresh ginger, wine, and scallions, then marinated in a rich paste pungent with bean sauce, five-spice powder, and fermented red bean curd, the closest the Chinese come to a cheese.

This recipe serves two, but Riley drinks the whole thing, filling her fruit and soy requirements for the day.

A variety of spermicides have been used over the centuries, the earliest surviving recipe from the Egyptian Petri papyrus of 1850 B.

In all stuffing recipes they can be braised or baked whole, along with the bodies.

I closed the cookbook on a recipe for turkey stuffing made, so help me, of pine nuts and prunes.

I promised Grace to trade her my recipe for tortellini for hers for fried chicken.

In the meanwhile there was a glass of sherry to drink while she made a slow-moving conversation with one of the cousins, and then supper, sitting between Uncle Tom and the other cousin--an elaborate meal, with Mrs Parsons explaining in a die-away voice just how long it had taken her to shop for each item they ate, and the unsparing efforts made to offer some of her most cherished recipes to her guests.

Among the recipe books were some interesting works: seminal texts by the Ancients on spontaneous and vermiparous generation, experimental investigations by fringe alchemists, how to generate different dog breeds, how to spawn monsters, create golems, summon demons!