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Recipe

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means a set of instructions for preparing a particular dish
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Stage 1 of 2
recipere
Latin · ancient
"to receive, to take"
to receive, to take, the opening word of medieval medical prescriptions
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Stage 2 of 2
recipe
English · 1500s
"a set of instructions for preparing a dish"
narrowed from a medical instruction to a set of cooking instructions
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