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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

... lives of women, or to insist on the larger space which ought to be assigned to the cultivation of it in those lives. The moral of the whole subject may be put into one short sentence, namely this: The chief recipe for giving richness and peace to the soul is, less of vague passion, less of ambitious activity, anti more of dedicated sentiment in the private personal ...

— The Friendships of Women • William Rounseville Alger

... Lizzie. "And look at this. I was going to keep it for a surprise. I made it by your wife's recipe." ...

— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow

... de Cardoville had just awoke; she reposed in the middle of this flood of muslin, lace, cambric, and white silk, in a position full of sweet grace. Never during the night did she cover that beautiful golden hair (a certain recipe, said the Greeks, for preserving it for a long while in magnificence). Every evening, her women arranged her long silky curls in flat tresses, forming two broad bands, which, descending sufficiently low almost entirely to conceal the small ear, the rosy lobe of which was alone visible, ...

— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue

... plate of iodine; and then proceeds at leisure to etch a million. There are always objects; but there was never representation. Here is perfect representation, at last; and now let the world of figures sit for their portraits. No recipe can be given for the making of a Shakespeare; but the possibility of the translation of things ...

— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various

... I had a hard time to find enough to do to keep my mind off of my troubles. In an old recipe-book, which I found in the closet under the stairs, it told how to tan skins, so I began tanning my wolf-skins. I whittled out some puzzles, too, and made a leather collar for Pawsy; but she would not ...

— Track's End • Hayden Carruth

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