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Re: Show HN: Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch

#61
The classic book "Joy of Cooking" is kind of recursive like this.

If you want to make a Reuben Sandwich, you turn to p. 272, and describes the bread, meat, cheese, and sauerkraut. Then it says to spread it with Russian Dressing and points you at p. 364 for that.

The Russian Dressing recipe includes horseradish and grated onion. It also includes Mayonnaise, and for that it points you at p. 363. Another ingredient for Russian dressing is either Chili Sauce or Catsup, and for each of those it points you to p. 847.

On p. 363, there are several paragraphs about Mayonnaise, and 3 recipes for hand-beaten, mixer, and blender versions.

On p. 847, neither the Chili Sauce nor Tomato Catsup recipes have any sub-recipes, but both of them point you to p. 841 for information about Pickling Equipment and Ingredients and they also both point you to p. 804 for a procedure for sealing sterile jars in boiling water.

The jar-sealing procedure on p. 804 points you to p. 165 for an illustration of a tool for lifting jars out of boiling water.

The pickling section on p. 841 mentions that water should be soft and refers to p. 519, the About Water section under Know Your Ingredients which discusses filtration among other things. It also mentions you should only use pickling or dairy salt, and refers you to About Salt on p. 568. And finally it mentions when pickling, you might want to used the Spiced Vinegar recipe on p. 527.

Re: Show HN: Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch

#62
post #22

This is a cool concept but this is so meta - it looks like my browser history recursed on itself lol

Haha, sorry about that! Didn't mean to subvert everyone's back button. I am just learning React and I think I pushed the history too often in the page.

No worries! we're all learning here :)

Re: Show HN: Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch

#64

The classic book "Joy of Cooking" is kind of recursive like this. If you want to make a Reuben Sandwich, you turn to p. 272, and describes the bread, meat, cheese, and sauerkraut. Then it says to spread it with Russian Dressing and points you at p. 364 for that. The Russian Dressing recipe includes horseradish and grated onion. It also includes Mayonnaise, and for that it points you at p. 363. Another ingredient for…

An Australian equivalent is Stephanie Alexander's The Cook's Companion. Almost every ingredient has a "goes with" list that makes it a great starting point when you have something to use up or that you've picked in the garden.

https://www.stephaniealexander.com.au/books/the-cook%E2%80%9...

Re: Show HN: Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch

#65
This is hysterical!

Make the vanilla beans (4 years)

Vanilla grows best in warm temperatures, preferably in the 70’s to 90’s. Cooler temperatures will slow down the growth. Keep temperatures above 60˙F for the most part. Vanilla orchids benefit from regular applications of fertilizer.

It really is good for a laugh, but it’s also an interesting way to visualize just how much goes into something as “simple” as a chocolate chip cookie. It’s the labor of many people all around the world to grow the wheat, the vanilla, the cacao, process the cacao, raise the cows, churn the butter, etc.

Re: Show HN: Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch

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post #15

I made this for fun with React and Go, its open-source if you want to hack it yourself. [1] I was inspired by the book "Make the Bread, Buy the Butter" by Jennifer Reese. I tried to continue the idea to see how much money+time it costs to continually substitute an ingredient for the recipe of that ingredient. Sorry for the ads - I use them to make back the $ spent on the domain :). I just toned them down. Please let…

I really enjoyed the design of the site. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Show HN: Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch

#68

I love this: https://recursive.recipes/recipe/refried-beans?amount=10&tim... Totally absurd, but fun to play with. I do find sometimes it says it'll be cheaper to buy it, but in several cases I'm positive it's not, or the price of the product in store vs from the recipe isn't directly comparable. The example of refried beans is complicated. If you buy a can of refried beans, it won't be as high quality as the recipe…

What about raising the cow from a calf, though?

Most constituent lard is made from a pig. And pigs (while quite social) take pretty good care of themselves even if simply/only fed and watered. Depending on your environment, that might well be done by letting the pig go wander about and find feed and water.
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