Recipe

This article will discuss recipe as a set of instructions for cooking.

A recipe (also called receipt, particularly in Commonwealth English) is a procedure for cooking, and specifically a written set of instructions. However, many recipes are handed down orally, especially through families.

A recipe typically lists the ingredients needed to prepare a dish and their proportions, gives the total preparation time, gives an indication of how many persons the recipe will serve, and tells the cook of any specialised utensils that are needed.

Recipes can be simple (place all ingredients in a large bowl and stir) or extremely complex.