recipe
/ˈrɛsəpi/
noun
- A set of instructions for cooking or preparing a particular dish, including a list of ingredients and steps.
- I followed my grandmother's recipe for chocolate chip cookies.
- This recipe calls for fresh basil and garlic.
- She found a simple recipe for vegetable soup online.
- A method or plan for achieving a particular result, often used in a figurative way.
- Hard work and patience are a recipe for success.
- The company's new strategy was a recipe for disaster.
- Leaving trash near the campsite is a recipe for attracting bears.
- A prescription for medicine (less common, but still used in some contexts).
- The pharmacist filled the recipe exactly as written.
- In older English, a recipe was a doctor's written order for medicine.
- The doctor wrote a recipe for the patient's cough syrup.
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