Food / A2

RES-uh-pee/ˈresəpi/

A recipe is a set of instructions for cooking a dish: a cake recipe, follow the recipe, a recipe for soup. Receipt is the shop paper you get after you pay — a common mix-up. Recipe is countable: two recipes. Ingredients are what you put in. Do not say “a cooking receipt” for instructions; that is a recipe.

Meaning

A set of instructions for cooking a dish.

Examples

• “Follow the recipe to make the cake.”
• “This recipe needs three eggs and some flour.”
• “I found a simple recipe for lentil soup.”

Good to know

a recipe for + dish. follow a recipe. Not receipt (the shop paper).

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