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A list of instructions society trusts more than it trusts most laws.
means A set of instructions for making a dish, listing what you need and the steps to combine it.
from From Latin *recipe*, meaning 'take!' — the imperative form of *recipere* ('to take, receive'). It was literally the word doctors and apothecaries scrawled at the top of prescriptions, telling the pharmacist which ingredients to take and combine. That abbreviation survives today as the symbol 'Rx.' As handwritten instructions for medicines shaded into handwritten instructions for food, 'recipe' drifted from the medicine cabinet to the kitchen, keeping its bossy little command tucked inside the word.
- medical ancestor
- the Rx symbol descends from this same Latin word
- oldest known
- Mesopotamian clay tablets list recipes from 1700 BC
- legal loophole
- exact recipes cannot be copyrighted, only their written wording
- secret formulas
- Coca-Cola guards its recipe as a trade secret, not a patent