recipe
Pronunciation: /ˈrɛsɪpi/
noun
- a set of instructions for preparing a particular dish, including a list of the ingredients required: a traditional Yorkshire recipe
- something which is likely to lead to a particular outcome: sky-high interest rates are a recipe for disaster
- archaic a medical prescription: it would be useless to enumerate all the drugs and recipes for their application which have been tried
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin, literally 'receive!' (first used as an instruction in medical prescriptions), imperative of recipere