Tutorial #2: Combining recipes for easy costing, nutritional analysis and shopping list
• Tutorial #2: Combining recipes for easy co...
This video shows how to combine recipes in Shop'NCook software.
Combining recipe allows you to easily reuse your base preparations like doughs or dressings in other recipes.
To link successfully recipes, you have to make sure that:
the main recipe and linked recipe are in the same cookbook
the title of the linked recipe is the same as the name of the ingredient linking to it
the ingredient name is not the same of the name of a grocery item, as linking to grocery items have priority over linking to other recipes
the software knows how to scale the linked recipe to yield the quantity specified in the main recipe
Three example are shown:
Example 1: Linking the recipe "red beef chili" to "toasted cumin crema".
The quantity of toasted cumin crema i not specified in the red beef chili recipe. The recipes are automatically combined by the software. The ingredients of toasted cumin crema are included in the list of shopping items, nutritional analysis and costing analysis of the red beef chili recipe.
Example 2: Linking the recipe "spaghetti with tomato sauce" to "tomato sauce" recipe
Tomato sauce is the name of a grocery item. The recipe "spaghetti with tomato sauce" links to the grocery item "tomato sauce" instead of the recipe "tomato sauce".
Three solutions are proposed to fix the recipe link:
1. Rename the recipe to "Homemade tomato sauce" for example, so that its name is different from the grocery item.
2. Remove the synonym "tomato sauce" from the grocery item "tomato sauce canned".
3. The solution chosen in the tutorial: specify a quantity of "1 recipe" for tomato sauce in the "spaghetti with tomato sauce" recipe, to indicate to the software that it has to be linked to another recipe, and not to a grocery item.
Example 3: Linking "brussel sprouts with hollandaise sauce" to "hollandaise sauce" recipe
The recipe for Brussel sprouts with hollandaise sauce cannot link to the recipe for Hollandaise sauce, because it requires a quantity of 1 cup of hollandaise sauce, but the yield of the hollandaise sauce recipe is not specified. Therefore, the software does not know how to scale the "hollandaise sauce" recipe to yield one cup.
To fix the link, you have to edit the "hollandaise sauce" recipe and input its yield.