Frequently Asked Questions
General
Account registration at The Recipe Project is only required if you will be adding recipes or sharing stories associated with your recipes.
If you share your book with someone, you are sharing all the history and stories associated with all of your recipes as well, so ideally this should be reserved for family or close family friends. This also allows people to add their own stories to your recipe, which will be shared with everyone who has access to your book.
If you want to simply share a recipe with a friend or acquaintance, you can just send them a public link to the recipe on The Recipe Project website. They will see your recipe and any cooking tips or hints, but will not see any stories added by you or your family members.
No. Only people with whom you have shared your book will see the stories associated with the recipe. The general public will only see the recipe, photo and tips.
At this point, you don't. We are still debating whether to include the delete functionality. Mostly due to the ramificiations if you delete a recipe that someone else liked or is using. So for now, you can simply ignore any recipes that you don't want to use going forward.
Cooking hints and tips add information to the recipe itself, like substitution suggestions or tips for freezing to use the food at a later date. These can be viewed publicly on the general website (without your name), and by your family/friends (with your name).
Stories are personal recollections, experiences, and photos. These are private and are only viewable by people with whom you have elected to share your own book.
Yes, but don't claim a recipe is yours if you didn't create it from scratch yourself. Give credit where credit is due, or add a link to the site where you found the recipe. You never know, this might even help you find more recipes that you like in the future.
For more on recipes and copyright laws, you can read The Definitive Guide to Recipes and Copyright.
No. Most images and illustrations are protected by copyright laws, so do not copy, save and upload other people's photos. Next time you make the recipe, just take a quick photo on your phone or tablet, log in and upload it to your recipe. I'm sure your food looks just as tasty as that other image!
Uses
The short answer: because although Chicken Enchilada Casserole is something you make that isn't YOUR absolute favorite, it just might be the absolute favorite of your #3 child. So having it in your Book, but not marked as a personal favorite for you, means that it is available to you if #3 happens to be coming over for dinner. AND, it is available for him to favorite in his account, so he can make it at his own home if he wants.
Similarly, if Molten Chocolate Lava Cake does happen to be a favorite of yours, as well as your #2 and #4 children, having that recipe in your book makes it possible for you, #2 and #4 to favorite it, and #3 to ignore it (because he is very odd and doesn't like chocolate.)
When you add a recipe, you will see a field called Found By. This was added to allow credit to be assigned to another person, and allow other members of the family to search for recipes used by that person.
For example, if a group of adult siblings wanted to have access to old family recipes that their Great Grannie Hall used to make back in the day, one or more of them could add her recipes to their own book, entering Grannie Hall in the Found By field. This will allow all family members with access to those books to search the Found By field for recipes created by Grannie Hall. This allows all family members to share the task of entering Grannie's classic recipes into The Recipe Project, so those recipes and stories can then be shared between the siblings, their own children, and their children's children.
Features in Development
We are considering implementing a number of other features, including:
- import - the ability to import recipes from other sites, instead of manually cutting and pasting the ingredients and method.
- favorites - the ability to mark recipes as a favorite; these would be frequently used recipes to which you want easy access.
- collections - the abiltity to sort your recipes into your own custom categories; perhaps so you can filter by a family member's personal preferences, or a certain dietary requirement.
- cooking count- a way to flag recipes each time you make it, so you can see how often a recipe is used.
- likes - a way to see which members of your circle have flagged a given recipe as liked.
- a guest food blog - so individuals could submit an blog article to share with other users; if you don't have your own food blog, this would be a way to try it out.
Have another suggestion for a feature or enhancement? Contact us - we would be happy to hear it.