recipe

CEFRA2

/ˈɹɛsɪpi/

noun

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01
noun
Instructions for preparing a particular food or drink.
02
noun
Extra detail
A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription.

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Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.
Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.

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[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.
2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892
As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848

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Borrowed from Middle French récipé, from Latin recipe, second person singular imperative of Latin recipiō (“receive”).