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recipe, v. and n.|ˈrɛsɪpiː|
[L. recipe take (2nd sing. imp. of recipĕre to receive), used by physicians (abbreviated R, ℞) to head prescriptions, and hence applied to these and similar formulae. So F. récipé (15th c.).]
†A. v. imp. = ‘Take’. Obs.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 81 Recipe litargium as myche as þou wolt. a1500Harl. MS. 5401 in Babees Bk. 53 Recipe brede gratyd, & eggis. 1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. 52 b/1 Recipe of syrupe de besantiis, of syrupe of roses. a1652Bloomfield Blossoms xiii. in Ashm. (1652) 308 Some..unto thee shall say, Recipe this, and that, with a thousand things more.
B. n.
1. Med. A formula for a medical prescription; a prescription, or the remedy prepared in accordance with this.
1584R. Parsons Leicester's Commw. (1641) 23 Hee died in the way of an extreame Flux, caused by an Italian Recipe. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d' Alf. i. 31 Hee would thrust his hand into his Satchell,..and then would hee take forth one of his recipe's. 1697Tutchin Search Honesty ix, They, with their Recipes, Corrupt our Blood. 1742Blair Grave 333 Where are thy recipes and cordials now? 1801Wolcott (P. Pindar) Tears & Smiles Wks. 1812 V. 50 To bring her back to health again Of recipes a score. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 579 It would be useless to try to enumerate all the..drugs, and recipes for their application, which have been tried.
transf.a1679T. Goodwin Unregen. Man's Guilt. xiii. viii. Wks. 1865 X. 546 Those two known cordial recipes..commonly taken by most Christians in their distresses. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. ix. x. (1872) III. 151 But Friedrich Wilhelm steps in with a healing recipe: ‘Let there be Four Reich's-Feldmarschalls’.
attrib.1674R. Godfrey Inj. & Ab. Physic Pref., Many of those Recipe-Medicines..do more harm than good. 1781J. Ripley Sel. Orig. Lett. 113 Every author (before..Dr. Brachin) appears to me only recipe men, and smatterers in farriery.
2. A statement of the ingredients and procedure necessary for the making or compounding of some preparation, esp. of a dish in cookery; a receipt. Also fig.
1716T. Cave Let. 5 Oct. in M. M. Verney Verney Lett. 18th Cent. (1930) II. xxii. 45 Sister Lovett and I greatly admire the Ink you wrote last with,..but dare not wish for the Recipe it being no doubt a Secrett. 1743H. Walpole Let. 12 Oct., Recipes for pastry ware. 1775R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor lvii. 195 The epicure will not lament that the entire recipe has not reached us. 1846Greener Sci. Gunnery 177 The best method of staining barrels is by the following recipe;..1 oz. Muriate Tincture of Steel [etc.]. 1853A. Soyer Pantroph. 289 Two thousand years have elapsed since Cato wrote the recipe for his somewhat heavy tart. 1947[see promoting vbl. n. 3]. 1969Times 12 May 16/3 The D.N.A. molecules in the cells of normal people contain a chemical recipe for manufacturing ordinary haemoglobin. 1981Times 9 Apr. 9/7 Another recipe made especially for Easter is fritters of soft ricotta cheese.
3. transf. A means (actual or suggested) for attaining or effecting some end.
a1643Suckling Let. Wks. (1646) 69 To marry is the best Recipe for living honest. 1675Art Contentm. x. §11 (1684) 234 When those are precluded, for all the rest St. Pauls recipe is a catholicon, ‘Be careful for nothing’. 1789H. Walpole Let. 14 Aug., Easy as I call this recipe, you, I believe, would find it..difficult to execute. 1820Scott Abbot xxvi, We have the Plague proposing us a visit, the best of all recipes for thinning a land. 1876Mozley Univ. Serm. i. 23 This Corporation has one recipe against all difficulties—organisation.
4. Comb., as recipe-book, a book containing recipes, a cookery-book; also fig.
1872Young Englishwoman Dec. 662 Recipes of practical utility will appear..to be neatly copied into their recipe-books. 1952M. Laski Village iii. 62 To have read the recipe-books and produced appetising meals for her family would have meant, to her, willing acceptance of..servitude. 1964P. Strevens in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 125 Teaching grammars in the future..will be superior..to those of the past which have simply been grammar-teaching recipe-books. 1976L. Deighton Twinkle, twinkle, Little Spy xiv. 140 Bessie Mann was asking me how many kids we were going to have, and I found myself looking at recipe books and baby carriages.
▸ recipe dish n. Brit. (chiefly in the food industry) a meal which would ordinarily require lengthy preparation, sold ready-made and requiring only to be heated or cooked before consumption.
1986Independent 17 Nov. 21/6 Like *recipe dishes, house plants sell on fat margins. 1998Scotsman (Electronic ed.) 17 Dec. It [sc. a merger of companies] is within our core strategy of manufacturing ethnic and speciality foods and allows us to enter the chilled recipe dish market. 2001Grocer (Nexis) 29 Sept. 44 [British] consumers..demand quality and authenticity. As a result, our recipe dish and convenience food manufacturers are now world leaders. |