Recipe Definition And Origin

From latin literally receive first used as an instruction in medical prescriptions imperative of recipere.

Recipe definition and origin. King richard ii of england commissioned a recipe book called forme of cury in 1390 and around the same time another book was published entitled curye on inglish cury meaning cooking. See recipe in the oxford advanced american dictionary see recipe in the oxford learner s dictionary of academic english. A recipe for a cake.

A recipe is a list of ingredients and a set of instructions that tell you how to cook something. Receipt its first meaning was a drug made according to a recipe or a recipe for making food. The first recorded use of receipt is a reference to a medicinal preparation in chaucer s canterbury tales c.

A set of instructions telling you how to prepare and cook food including a list of what food is. Recipe books from the qajar era are numerous the most notable being khorak ha ye irani by prince nader mirza. Recipe definition a set of instructions for making or preparing something especially a food dish.

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. Recipe didn t arrive until the 1500s and it was also first used to describe medicine. Both words began to be applied to cooking only in the 18th century after which recipe slowly became the preferred word.