recipe

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recipe

a set of instructions for making something: a recipe for muffins; a device for achieving something: a recipe for success

Not to be confused with:

receipt – the state of being received into one’s possession: receipt of goods; a written acknowledgment of payment: a receipt for the order

rec·i·pe

(rĕs′ə-pē′)

1. A set of directions with a list of ingredients for making or preparing something, especially food.

2. A formula for or means to a desired end: a recipe for success.

3. A medical prescription.

[Latin, sing. imperative of recipere, to take, receive; see receive.]

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recipe

(ˈrɛsɪpɪ)

1. (Cookery) a list of ingredients and directions for making something, esp a food preparation

2. (Medicine) med (formerly) a medical prescription

3. a method for achieving some desired objective: a recipe for success.

[C14: from Latin, literally: take (it)! from recipere to take, receive]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

rec•i•pe

(ˈrɛs ə pi)

n., pl. -pes.

1. a set of instructions for making or preparing something, esp. a food dish.

2. a medical prescription.

3. a method to attain a desired end: a recipe for a happy marriage.

[1350–1400; Middle English < Latin: take, imperative singular of recipere to receive]

recipe

German chocolate - Refers to Baker's German Sweet Chocolate, German being an employee of Baker who developed the sweet chocolate in the recipe.
receipt - Its first meaning was "a drug made according to a recipe" or a "recipe" for making food.
recipe - As a verb, it was once used at the beginning of medical prescriptions and it first (in Latin) meant "take"—we are familiar with its use by physicians in the abbreviation R or Rx.
tollhouse cookie - Named after the Toll House in Whitman, Massachusetts, the source of the recipe.

receipt

– recipe

1. 'receipt'

A receipt /rɪ'siːt/ is a piece of paper that confirms that money or goods have been received.

We've got receipts for each thing we've bought.

2. 'recipe'

Don't use 'receipt' to refer to a set of instructions telling you how to cook something. The word you use is recipe /'resəpi/.

This is an old Polish recipe for beetroot soup.

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Noun

recipe - directions for making something

formula

instruction, direction - a message describing how something is to be done; "he gave directions faster than she could follow them"

recipe

noun directions, instructions, ingredients, receipt (obsolete) I can give you the recipe for these biscuits

a recipe for something method, formula, prescription, process, programme, technique, procedure, modus operandi Large-scale inflation is a recipe for disaster.

Quotations
"All recipes are built on the belief that somewhere at the beginning of the chain there is a cook who does not use them" [John Thorne `Cuisine Mécanique']

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Translations

وَصْفَة طَبْخوَصْفَةٌ لِتَحْضِيرِ طَعَام

recept

opskrift

Rezept

συνταγή

receta

retsept

ruokaresepti

recette ordonnance

מתכון

recept

uppskrift

ricetta via chiave

レシピ調理手順調理法

요리법

recept

matoppskrift oppskrift

przepis

receita

рецепт

recept

ตำรากับข้าว

tarifyemek tarifi

công thức nấu ăn

烹饪法食谱

recipe

[ˈresɪpɪ]

A. N → receta f (de cocina)
a recipe for (also fig) → una receta para
it's a recipe for disaster → es una forma segura de buscarse problemas

B. CPD recipe book N → libro m de cocina, recetario m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

recipe

[ˈrɛsɪpi]

(COOKERY) → recette f
a recipe for pumpkin soup → une recette de soupe au potiron

(fig) it's a recipe for disaster → c'est la catastrophe assurée
recipe for success → recette du succès
If there is any recipe for success, I would say it's hard work
BUT S'il existe un ingrédient magique pour réussir, je dirais que c'est le travail.
to be a recipe for success → être le succès assuré

modif
recipe card → fiche-recette f
recipe ideas → des idées de recettes recipe bookrecipe book n → livre m de recettes

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

recipe

n → Rezept nt; (fig also) → Geheimnis nt; that’s a recipe for disaster → das führt mit Sicherheit in die Katastrophe; a recipe for success → ein Erfolgsrezept nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

recipe

[ˈrɛsɪpɪ] n (also) (fig) → ricetta

recipe

(ˈresəpi) noun

a set of instructions on how to prepare and cook something. a recipe for curry; (also adjective) a recipe book.

recipe

→ وَصْفَةٌ لِتَحْضِيرِ طَعَام recept opskrift Rezept συνταγή receta ruokaresepti recette recept ricetta 調理法 요리법 recept oppskrift przepis receita рецепт recept ตำรากับข้าว tarif công thức nấu ăn 烹饪法

rec·i·pe

n. receta, prescripción.

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On the following morning at five o'clock D'Artagnan arose, and descending to the kitchen without help, asked, among other ingredients the list of which has not come down to us, for some oil, some wine, and some rosemary, and with his mother's recipe in his hand composed a balsam, with which he anointed his numerous wounds, replacing his bandages himself, and positively refusing the assistance of any doctor, D'Artagnan walked about that same evening, and was almost cured by the morrow.

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Presently, he returned, followed by the boy from the public- house, who bore in one hand a plate of bread and beef, and in the other a great pot, filled with some very fragrant compound, which sent forth a grateful steam, and was indeed choice purl, made after a particular recipe which Mr Swiveller had imparted to the landlord, at a period when he was deep in his books and desirous to conciliate his friendship.

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"Kiss it!" was Bruno's invariable recipe in cases of doubt and difficulty.

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get recipe for Mina.) I asked the waiter, and he said it was called "paprika hendl," and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians.

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"I know not Lethe nor Nepenthe," remarked he; "but I have learned many new secrets in the wilderness, and here is one of them -- a recipe that an Indian taught me, in requital of some lessons of my own, that were as old as Paracelsus.

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On her first visit to Mercedes Higgins, Saxon received the recipe for home-made soap and her head was filled with a minutiae of instruction in the art of fine washing.

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Looking through the pages he found the recipe he wanted and said: "I must have a gill of water from a dark well."

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Occasionally she would draw near the candle and read from a yellow paper the recipe of the mess she was concocting.

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Do send me your recipe for them, there's a darling.

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Also upon each table stands the counterfeit of that benign sauce made "from the recipe of a nobleman in India."

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You procured from Emil a small quantity of the powder prepared according to the recipe of Herr Estentrauzen, and for which we paid him ten thousand marks.

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Blewett went out in quest of a recipe the latter had come to borrow she sprang up and flew across the room to Marilla.