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[L. recipe take (2nd sing. imp. of recip_files/ebreve.gif)
re to
RECEIVE
), used by physicians (abbreviated R, _files/recipe.gif)
)
to head prescriptions, and hence applied to these and similar formulae. So F.
récipé (15th c.).]
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A. v. imp. = ‘Take’. Obs.
c1400
Lanfranc's Cirurg.
81
Recipe litargium as myche as _files/th.gif)
ou wolt.
a1500
Harl. MS.
5401 in
Babees Bk.
53
Recipe brede gratyd, & eggis.
1543
TRAHERON
Vigo's Chirurg.
52b/1
Recipe of syrupe de besantiis, of syrupe of roses.
a1652
BLOOMFIELD
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.
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1584
R. PARSONS
Leicester's Commw.
(1641) 23
Hee died in the way of an extreame Flux, caused by an Italian Recipe.
1622
MABBE
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.
1697
TUTCHIN
Search Honesty
ix,
They, with their Recipes, Corrupt our Blood.
1742
BLAIR
Grave
333
Where are thy recipes and cordials now?
1801
WOLCOTT
(P. Pindar)
Tears & Smiles
Wks. 1812 V. 50
To bring her back to health again Of recipes a score.
1899
Allbutt'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.
a1679
T. GOODWIN
Unregen. Man's Guilt.
XIII.
viii. Wks. 1865 X. 546
Those two known cordial recipes..commonly taken by most Christians in their distresses.
1865
CARLYLE
Fredk. Gt.
IX.
x. (1872) III. 151
But Friedrich Wilhelm steps in with a healing recipe: ‘Let there be Four Reich's-Feldmarschalls’.
attrib.
1674
R. GODFREY
Inj. & Ab. Physic
Pref.,
Many of those Recipe-Medicines..do more harm than good.
1781
J. 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.
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1716
T. 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.
1743
H. WALPOLE
Let.
12 Oct.,
Recipes for pastry ware.
1775
R. CHANDLER
Trav. Asia Minor
lvii. 195
The epicure will not lament that the entire recipe has not reached us.
1846
GREENER
Sci. Gunnery
177
The best method of staining barrels is by the following recipe;..1 oz. Muriate
Tincture of Steel [etc.].
1853
A. SOYER
Pantroph.
289
Two thousand years have elapsed since Cato wrote the recipe for his somewhat heavy
tart.
1947
[see
PROMOTING
vbl. n. 3].
1969
Times
12 May 16/3
The D.N.A. molecules in the cells of normal people contain a chemical recipe for
manufacturing ordinary haemoglobin.
1981
Times
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.
a1643
SUCKLING
Let.
Wks. (1646) 69
To marry is the best Recipe for living honest.
1675
Art Contentm.
x. §11 (1684) 234
When those are precluded, for all the rest St. Pauls recipe is a catholicon, ‘Be
careful for nothing’.
1789
H. WALPOLE
Let.
14 Aug.,
Easy as I call this recipe, you, I believe, would find it..difficult to execute.
1820
SCOTT
Abbot
xxvi,
We have the Plague proposing us a visit, the best of all recipes for thinning
a land.
1876
MOZLEY
Univ. Serm.
i. 23
This Corporation has one recipe against all difficulties_files/em.gif)
organisation.
4.
Comb., as recipe-book,
a book containing recipes, a cookery-book; also fig.
1872
Young Englishwoman
Dec. 662
Recipes of practical utility will appear..to be neatly copied into their recipe-books.
1952
M. 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.
1964
P. 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.
1976
L. 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.
DRAFT ADDITIONS JUNE 2002
recipe, n.
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recipe dish 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.
1986
Independent 17 Nov. 21/6 Like
*recipe dishes, house plants sell on fat margins. 1998
Scotsman (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. 2001
Grocer (Nexis) 29 Sept. 44
[British] consumers..demand quality and authenticity. As a
result, our recipe dish and convenience food manufacturers are now world
leaders.
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