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A recipe is a set of instructions that show how to prepare or make something, especially a culinary dish (food).
Modern culinary recipes normally consist of several components:
Some recipes will note how long the dish will keep and its suitability for freezing.
Earlier recipes often included much less information, serving more as a reminder of ingredients and proportions for someone who already knew how to prepare the dish.
Recipe writers sometimes also list variations of a traditional dish.
Recipes are often annotated with the history of the dish, nutritional information, dietary information, food philosophy, or anecdotes.
Nutritional information includes food energy (calories), vitamin content, fat content, etc.
"Recipe" comes from the Latin word recipe 'take (imperative)', that is, an instruction to have the ingredients ready, originally used in doctors' orders to pharmacists.[1]