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noun

a set of instructions for making or preparing something, especially a food dish: a recipe for a cake.

a medical prescription.

a method to attain a desired end: a recipe for success.

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

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The year has brought a rush of new recipe search engines designed to solve dining challenges.

So when the day fills up with meetings, it's a recipe for stress.

The best recipe for growth is to raise productivity through structural reforms-but nobody said that was easy.

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The year has brought a rush of new recipe search engines designed to solve dining challenges.

So when the day fills up with meetings, it's a recipe for stress.

The best recipe for growth is to raise productivity through structural reforms-but nobody said that was easy.

Better yet, you can adjust the recipe to suit your dog's tastes and health needs.

Coker has come up with a recipe for success called the branded viral movie predictor algorithm.

Double the recipe for the mint syrup if you're planning to make more than one batch of these refreshing summer drinks.

There's also a browser and recipe book, but those are icing.

I've been making sesame crackers for decades, tweaking my recipe over the years.

Add to the mix incentive pay in the form of commissions, and you have a recipe for a full-on educational meltdown.

And it is not obvious that a winning recipe needed more than tweaking.

If anything, this recipe uses ingredients you can easily find at the grocery store and you can use natural dyes for color.

With the recipe it's easy to make a cake, but try to reconstruct the recipe once the cake is finished.

If you're using this as your only main course-instead of serving it with the hanger steak-double the recipe.

Re-orienting the iPhone to panoramic mode shifts the recipe to an easy-to-read list of ingredients and instructions.

Working to please everyone is a recipe for pleasing no one, especially yourself.

The government's recipe for post-natal tensions, for example, is to involve health visitors.

Even if you prefer store-bought soap, keeping a quick homemade recipe on hand for emergencies is worth it.

The fact that this complexity, danger, and emotion exist in such close proximity is a recipe for over-reaction.

Follow the recipe to make your own kimchi, or take a shortcut and use the condiment ready-made from the store.

The recipe for this superlube has long been a closely guarded trade secret-until now.

In a course where the students' grades are averaged, that is a recipe for disaster.

These are so popular that several other local restaurants have copied the recipe.

Check out the recipe here to make the cakes yourself at home, or order some online here.

It turned out the same recipe could be used for human cells as well.

Use pre-cooked shrimp and frozen spinach for this easy recipe.

But if you are using sweeter a recipe with lots of oats you might consider replacing water with milk.

The oldest surviving recipe in the world is for beer.

Mixing free-thinking into a recipe of science has led to modern-day revelations as well.

Here's how to make my grandma's refrigerator pickle recipe.

So, unlike remedying past racial injustices, the pursuit of diversity could well be a recipe for permanent racial balancing.

The recipe is proprietary, but much of the meaty taste comes from yeasts.

Worse, the army was caught after dark in civilian-filled streets, which smart commanders know to be a recipe for disaster.

The idea is that you can measure water into a recipe straight from the tap instead of going via a measuring jug.

Many violin-makers make their own and guard the recipe jealously.

That's one recipe that needs to be changed or the cook, doesn't really matter.

Unfortunately, they do not yet have a recipe for how such policymakers can be created.

My husband has a wonderful garlic pasta-sauce recipe.

While borscht can be served cold in the summer, this recipe delivers a steaming pot of.

There are endless variations on frijoles, and each family has its own distinctive recipe.

Sometimes combining three simple ingredients is all that is needed to create something spectacular, and this recipe is the.

BigOven not only makes the recipe searchable, it also turns it into text and puts that text into the appropriate recipe fields.

There is a substantial recipe collection on the site.

It has also changed the recipe of some of its goodies to reduce their milk content.

The article chronicled the near impossibility of bringing a recipe to fruition in a conventional kitchen.

For your valentine, use a chocolate maker's favorite recipe.

Use the same body language and vocal cues you would use when discussing your favorite research or pie recipe.

If ever there were a recipe for poor political leadership, this is it.

Many recipes can be found at the recipe sites listed below.

There's a little check mark by the recipe for popovers, which pleases me, since this has been my own breakfast obsession lately.

Spice up the original s'mores recipe with these six new versions.

Combining the two would clearly seem to be a recipe for destruction, a physics faux-pas on the same level as crossing.

Working with an adult, track down and try a recipe from that part of the world.

Researchers devised a recipe for growing bioengineered blood vessels made from human cells.

Apart from its apricot filling, the recipe seems pretty simplechocolate on chocolate.

We developed this recipe for ribs, but it's also a winner with steak.

Yet ultimately his recipe for change is implausible.

For instance, it could let viewers viewers call up stats on a ballplayer during the game or view a recipe from a cooking show.

Potter in order to learn her well-guarded recipe for lemon meringue pie.

Add a label on the back of the bottle for the recipe instructions.

But one of the few things the average person doesn't use them for is managing recipe cards.

Pushing for faster completion for some disciplines is a sure recipe for lower-quality dissertations.

Put the two together and you have a recipe for ever-longer business cards:.

We later checked the recipe for the tarantulas in the restaurant's cookbook.

Add into the mix a city that considered it someone else's duty to protect them and you had a recipe for disaster.

Combine this extraordinary change with the world's human population increasing and you have a recipe for much suffering.

Lemonheads will delight over our perfected lemon meringue pie recipe.

Look up how long each recipe says it will take, paying attention to both the prep time and the cooking time.

Flats and pants for a formal event are a recipe for full-on matron frumpiness.

Seaver says this recipe for pink salmon cakes with dill mustard has become a weeknight favorite at his house.

Publishing a revision for a large group based on a study of only a few hundred species is a recipe for scientific dispute.

And don't forget, there's still time to submit a recipe for the solar system cupcake contest.

Folks, this is not a recipe for alleviating high gas prices in this decade.

But for the centralized planning of big government to dictate who should be trained and in what subjects is a recipe for disaster.

Despite this largesse, the recipe is almost certain to leave people unhappy.

When your tomatoes or herbs are ready for harvest, choose a recipe to make and share with your family, such as pico de gallo.

They're signed partly so that auto and battery companies can share technology and figure out a recipe for an electric car.

In a nice touch, the report even includes a recipe for sabzi pilau:.

Entering any graduate program in which you are not interested in the subject matter is a recipe for disaster.

Weak growth and high unemployment rates are an obvious recipe for discontent.

Add to that a population that is uninsured or under-insured and you have a recipe for disaster.

Let me add that dividing the work into mutually exclusive segments is a recipe for disaster.

Where oil is the only resource beyond the subsistence economy, that is a recipe for disaster.

Combine that with automobiles and industry and you have a recipe for disaster.

Add in an autowinder and you had a recipe for frustration.

Economic reform alone is not a recipe for happiness.

Look up the recipe you were going to make and copy the list of ingredients to your email.

Sacking your top bosses while giving little clue why is scarcely a recipe to calm financial markets.

The veggie soup recipe is nice to have made up and on hand and is tasty and filling.

It seemed a recipe for intellectual stagnation and a likely excuse for all sorts of foolishness and misconduct.

America's immigration system is a recipe for stagnation.

Yet shock-tactic advertising is not a foolproof recipe for commercial success.

Whoever makes this recipe and posts interesting comments will get a free book.

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World English Dictionary

recipe (ˈrɛsɪpɪ)

—n
1.	a list of ingredients and directions for making something, esp a food preparation
2.	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]

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Word Origin & History

recipe

1584, "medical prescription," from M.Fr. récipé, from L. recipe "take!," imperative of recipere "to take" (see receive); word written by physicians at the head of prescriptions. Meaning "instructions for preparing food" first recorded 1743. The original sense

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survives only in the pharmacist's abbreviation Rx.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

recipe rec·i·pe (rěs'ə-pē')
n.