recipe
- noun
- /ˈrɛsəpi/
- He followed the recipe exactly, measuring each ingredient carefully.
- ingredients in the recipe
- make a recipe
- a recipe for disaster
We are going to have a new recipe and a new guest.
- We are going to have a new recipe and a new guest.
- Do not give away the recipe to the secret sauce.
- In your opinion, what's the recipe for a great joke?
- I would love to see how this recipe looks in real life.
- Yes, I know it is a recipe for disaster.
- So I found this recipe for S'mores apples.
- It's it's, it's a recipe for social chaos.
- High blood fat and high cholesterol is a recipe for disaster.
- Have fun and as far as without a recipe, good luck.
Examples
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All right, here is the cupcake recipe I got off the Internet.
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I have not yet tried to make this recipe gluten free.
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We are going to have a new recipe and a new guest.
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But now that we have the recipe, yes, it's wonderful.
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I would love to see how this recipe looks in real life.
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Again, here is the recipe for this part.
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I wanted to know if this recipe includes potatoes.
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This is an East Indian recipe.
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I'm very excited about this recipe.
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Their mother reads the recipe to them as they watch and help her make playdough or cookies.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
Instructions for making something, often with a list of ingredients
Compounds
A way of cooking a dish people pass down in a family or community for many years
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word recipe comes from the Latin recipere meaning 'to take', and you can see the same root in receive. Long ago doctors wrote 'recipe' as an order to 'take' a medicine, so a recipe today is a list of ingredients and steps to take when cooking.