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We prefer to think of a recipe as the story of how a food item was prepared. What makes a good recipe, then, depends on what the story is for - is it for entertainment, for historical documentation, for teaching the home cook, or for training the professional chef? Each purpose has its own particular form.
Here, we are not so much interested in drama, or to create an ethnographic record, or to promote one product line or product. The intent is to convey to the cook enough information to enable him or her to successfully recreate a particular food item. So we approach the recipe as one cook to another. The presentation is formal only to make the information accessible.
The recipes are listed by the type of dish. Here I use a common set of dishes as presented Oklahoma Extension Homemakers [GoAnv] 1 along with a couple suggested by Calorie Count [CCRA] . Each type of dish has its own page, linked in the next section.
Recipes are listed by name in the Recipe index . So if you know the common name of a recipe, then you can look there. If you are looking for a recipe that uses a particular ingredient, use the Ingredient index .