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/rˈɛsəpi/ Listen

noun

Recipe n. (pl. recipes)

A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt.

A prescription for medicine. (archaic)

A set of directions for preparing food from its ingredients.

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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Etymology of 'Recipe'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Recipe" Quotes from Famous Books

... you set them down to language lessons or religious teaching, or tried to make them read the Constitution. If people had some fun together, Lydia thought, they pretty soon got to understand one another because they were doing a thing they liked, and one couldn't do it so well alone. That was her recipe. Jeff didn't take much stock in it. He was not wise enough to remember how eloquent are the mouths of babes. He went to Miss Amabel as being an expert in sympathy, and found her shy of him. She was on the veranda, ...

— The Prisoner • Alice Brown

... spirit which had inspired them still lived in the persons of the Jesuits, and there were now more Jesuits in the obedient provinces than there had been for years. We have seen that Champagny's remedy for the ills the country was enduring was "more Jesuits." And this, too, was Albert's recipe. Always "more Jesuits." And now the time had come when the Jesuits thought that they might step openly with their works into the daylight again. Of late years they had shrouded themselves in comparative mystery, ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... dirty-looking beer made from barley, was offered with each meal, and tea frequently, but I took my own 'on the sly.' I have mentioned a churn as part of the 'plenishings' of the living-room. In Tibet the churn is used for making tea! I give the recipe. 'For six persons. Boil a teacupful of tea in three pints of water for ten minutes with a heaped dessert- spoonful of soda. Put the infusion into the churn with one pound of butter and a small tablespoonful ...

— Among the Tibetans • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs Bishop)

... feast. The cake was of a kind peculiar to its maker, who prided herself upon never being without it; and there was some trick of her hand or a secret ingredient which was withheld when she responded with apparent cheerfulness to requests for its recipe. As for the apples, they were grown upon an old tree, one of whose limbs had been grafted with some unknown variety of fruit so long ago that the history was forgotten; only that an English gardener, many years before, had brought some cuttings ...

— A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett

... into a half-cup of brandy, add a pint of cream and two teaspoonfuls of dissolved gelatine. Whip in a dozen maraschino cherries and turn into a mould to harden. Serve with macaroons dipped into the liquid that comes around the maraschino cherries. A custard may be used in this recipe instead of ...

— Twenty-four Little French Dinners and How to Cook and Serve Them • Cora Moore

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