Recipe

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This article is about culinary recipes. For a discussion of semiconductor IC recipes, see Semiconductor fabrication.

An example recipe, printed from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

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

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 quantities or proportions
Equipment and environment needed to prepare the dish
An ordered list of preparation steps
The number of servings that the recipe will provide

Some recipes will note how long the dish will keep and its suitability for freezing.

Earlier recipes often included much less information, serving more as a reminder of ingredients and proportions for someone who already knew how to prepare the dish.

Recipe writers sometimes also list variations of a traditional dish.

1 Additional information
2 Etymology
3 See also
4 Notes

[edit] Additional information

Recipes are often annotated with the history of the dish, nutritional information, dietary information, food philosophy, or anecdotes.

Nutritional information includes food energy (calories), vitamin content, fat content, etc.

[edit] Etymology

"Recipe" comes from the Latin word recipe 'take (imperative)', that is, an instruction to have the ingredients ready, originally used in doctors' orders to pharmacists.^[1]