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Recipe   /rˈɛsəpi/   Listen
Recipe

noun
(pl. recipes)
1.
Directions for making something.  Synonym: formula.






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"Recipe" Quotes from Famous Books



... all children will hear of my recipe for a joyous day," said Merry Chuckle, "so that each day for them can be filled with ...
— Friendly Fairies • Johnny Gruelle

... learned from Miss Stevens, who had spoken with vast enthusiasm, was a base-ball hero. Hollis and Princeman and Westlake were crack bowlers, also crack tennis players, and no doubt all three were even expert croquet players. It was easy to see the sort of men she admired. Sam Turner only knew one recipe to get things, and he had made up his mind to have Miss Stevens. ...
— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester

... you can remember the ingredients of that cocktail I introduced to you at the 'Carlton' on a certain memorable evening when we escaped from Aunt Grizel," he said gaily. She looked at him reflectively. "As I've just been telling Sarle, you learned the recipe by heart, and swore that from henceforth ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley

... pieces of gold are ten pieces! To me at least! And the potion, which was made after a recipe of that same Messer Laurens of Paris, cost no less. It is a love-philtre, beneficent to the young, but if taken by the old so noxious, that had you swallowed it," with a grin, "you had not been ...
— The Long Night • Stanley Weyman

... have a taste for headaches, and Jullien has imported a capital recipe for creating them; they applaud—he bows; and musical taste goes—in compliment to the ex-waiter's genuine profession of ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, September 5, 1841 • Various


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