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Recipes

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.

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recipes

n. (plural of recipe English)

Usage examples of "recipes".

I've gone heavy on the recipes, because so much in life revolves around food.

In many of the recipes we have had to tinker with ingredients to allow for the fact that the Discworld equivalents are unavailable, inedible, or worse.

I'm very pleased that, with a lot of help, we've got recipes from all over the Disc - from Mrs Colon, wife to Sergeant Fred Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, from Mustrum Ridcully, Archchancellor of Unseen University, from our own king, Verence II of Lancre.

We have been provided with a number of recipes, including several for something she called biscuits and gravy.

By the time the young men collect their recipes, we'll be ready for them.

While my disk coughed up recipes and menus for Tudor feasts, my mind traveled back to the fight between Michaela and Eliot.

Then I inserted my disk to check the recipes for the potato casserole and raisin rice.

But the fact was that my memory for recipes was not butcher-knife sharp.

One of the team moms zipped to my side and gushed that she had to have my recipes for potato casserole and shrimp curry.

Leafing through it, he noted recipes for Bangers and Beans, Wimpy-diddles, and Mrs.

The book was a mess, but the recipes she had developed were priceless.

I have dozens of recipes for wonderful soups: Mulligatawny, Scotch broth, Portuguese black bean, eggplant and garlic, and lots more.

I spend my mornings here, testing recipes and experimenting with new dishes.

Next you might look for certain recipes that made her a legend in her time, like butter pecan ginger snaps and lemon coconut squares.

Or apply your prodigious and discerning skills to prepare some of the delightful-sounding recipes you have hoarded in your family memory banks.