Modern culinary formula commonly consist of many components: a title (& typically the venue or even provenance) of the dish, How lot period it might choose to develop a dish The needed ingredients along by having their quantity Equipment & environment required to develop a dish An orderly names of elaborated preparation procedures (known as Method). a total of servings that the dish might give. A rough out estimate of the total of calories or joules contained per serving. A note in how else hanker a dish may keep & its suitableness for freezing.

In the early history of formula, numbers of one components were omitted or even reduced to a note that involved unwritten instruction, a bit of of which might single develop the title & the ingredients of a dish.

Formula writers periodically too listing variations of the traditional dish.

Formula suggestions come welcome for the Wikibooks Cookbook.

A sample recipe
Other considerations
Some notable features of the sample recipe include: Ingredients listed in order. Pan size specified. Cooking temperature specified. Criteria for cooking time (until yolks set)

Stoves/cookers are not normally mentioned in the equipment list. Indeed, often equipment lists are omitted altogether.

What else might be included
Special handling requirements (how are eggs or butter stored? At what temperature should they be when cooking starts?) Garnishing or serving advice (add a sprig of parsley for color).

Additional facts often included in recipes
Recipe writers often add additional facts about the recipe, and, depending upon who you are, they are considered redundant or essential.

Such facts may include the history of the dish, nutritional information, dietary information, philosophical ramblings about the soul-enriching or health-benefiting properties of the dish, or what wonderful hostess in what particular town first served the dish to the author.

Nutritional information normally includes food energy, vitamin content, fat content, etc.

Where are recipes to be found
People have written recipes as recipe cards, recipe books, recipes worked into needlepoint, and computer recipe databases, among others. Take notes when making your favorite dish and share your recipe in the list of recipes or Wikibooks cookbook.

The composer Leonard Bernstein set four recipes to music in his set of songs, La Bonne Cuisine (1947).

Etymology
It originated as the Latin word recipe = "take back" (imperative), i.e. an instruction to take the items listed out of the storage where they had been stored earlier.