question re: components of recipe

Paul

Paul

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Is there a formal list (or generally accepted list) of the ingredient components of a recipe? For example if say you are making a recipe where you have a sauce which has separate group of ingredients and instructions.

Here is a list that I have so far with a few that get used interchangeably in some cases like pie/tart in a French recipe.

Butter

Cream

Dip

Emulsion

Pastry

Sauce

Side dish

Stuffing / Filling

Tart / Pie / Crust

 
Didn't understand

Sorry, Paul, I totally didn't understand the question. Are you asking for a term for different or multiple components of a recipe?

 
here is an example of what I mean

using a recipe from the T&T Appetizers: Spinach Jalapenos Dip with Pita Chips (link below for reference) there are two distinct ingredient groups, within the one recipe. I want to be able to categorize ingredient groups such as this.

The first component / ingredient group would be the "Dip" and then there is a second group for the "Pita Toasts" (I don't have a category "Toasts" in my original posted list). What I want is a list of these types of ingredient groups within a recipe.


INGREDIENT GROUP 1
1 T. chopped jalapenos
¾ c. chopped onions (cooked in microwave)
2 tomatoes, chopped about 2 cups
1 10oz pkg frozen spinach (cooked till dry)
8oz cream cheese
2 c. monterey jack cheese (8oz)
1/3 c. milk

In medium bowl, mix all ingredients together and
pour into buttered oven-proof dish. Bake at 400
degree oven 20-25 minutes.



INGREDIENT GROUP 2
Pita Toasts:
2 t. lemon pepper
2 t. ground cumin
½ c. butter melted
6 pita bread loaves

In saucepan, stir pepper & cumin into melted butter.
Halve pita breads; with tip of knife, open up each
half into 2 pieces. Cut pieces into triangle shapes.
Dip into butter mixture and place on broiler pan.
Broil until crisp. ** Try brushing butter on pita.


http://eat.at/swap/forum2/25_Spinach_Jalapenos_Dip_with_Pita_Chips

 
Mulling this over

I see what you mean, but I am going to have to think about a term or category.

 
Is it a problem to have a recipe in 2 categories?

Perhaps I am not understanding your intended goal but here's what I would do if I were saving the recipe in my files:

I would save the entire recipe, with both components, in my "appetizer" file and save the recipe for just the pita chips in either my bread file or appetizer file. If I knew I would never use the pita chips for anything other than the spinach jalapeno dip I might not bother saving it separately.

 
this is about the structure of the recipe

not filing them. So for example on this site in the T&T forums you have various categories (forums) under T&T e.g. Appetizers, Beef, Beverages... etc. So theoretically yes a recipe could be listed in more than one of these categories.

However, my concern here is with the actual structure of the individual recipe where you have more than one group of ingredients.

 
Do you mean something like a cake with the separate filling and frosting components?

Making a category list for a drop down menu for a recipe software tool, or similar?

 
I'd say no formal or 'accepted' list, Paul

It is so gray area- I mean a sauce can also be a dip or a spread. A sandwich can even be a "dip" as in French Dip meaning it gets dipped (and it has a few categories of things that make it up and none of it is French). An emulsion can be a soup, a sauce, a dip, a marinade, etc. A mixture of something can be so many different things in so many categories.

It used to be- in the really old days that there were fairly logical and clear-cut categories of things but not these days. I would think it could drive one mad to try to figure it out.

 
It's Not

It is not En Croute, that is a wrap.

Conveyance doesn't work either.

This is driving me crazy! I know there is a term.

 
as true as that is, thank you for adding two more to my list

spread
marinade

 
yes that could be as long as each had separate groups of ingredients

regarding the drop down list, yes like that but not distinguishing categories here but rather ingredient groups for within a single recipe. So perhaps in your example we have a single recipe but there could be three groups of ingredients:

Cake (group1)
4 cups cake flour...
2 tsp...

Filling (group2)
2 cups strawberry...

Frosting (group3)
3 cups powdered sugar
2 cups butter...

 
updated list 6-24

Not a complete or refined list as I had hoped to maybe combine types that are essentially the same like tart / pie or filling / stuffing but I'm not sure that is realistic and maybe just need a long list since cultural/regional norms will rule out regardless.

Cream
Crust
Dip
Emulsion
Filling
Frosting
Icing
Marinade
Pastry
Pie
Sauce
Side dish
Spread
Stuffing
Tart
Toast
Topping

 
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