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Recipe Ingredients Feature Improvement
More continous improvements at Family Recipe Central
While some of the adjustments, fixes and enhancements that we make at Family Recipe Central might seem small and insignificant, sometimes these minor improvements make a big difference for our users.
One of the frequent questions submitted to our support team is "how to have duplicate ingredient items" in the ingredients section of a recipe. Seems reasonable enough, but this has been a limitation in our system up until now.
For example, let's say you have a recipe that has two sections, a fish preparation, and a sauce that is served over the fish. You might want your ingredients list to look something like this ...
Ingredients
Fish
- 2 halibut filets
- 1/2 med onion, diced
- 1/2 cup cilantro, chopped
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- 1 leek, diced
Sauce
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp fresh ginger, minced
- 2 tbsp rice wine vingegar
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
Previously, the problem that you would bump into has been our limitation on duplicate ingredients. In this case, the sea salt in the Sauce section is flagged as an error because it's a duplicate ingredient entry of the sea salt in the Fish section.
New Family Cookbook How-to Get Started Guide
We've just added several new get-started guides all about how to create your family cookbook.
If you're wondering how to use the cookbook and recipe publishing system at Family Recipe Central to create your family cookbook, be sure to see these helpful tutorials ...
Improvements to Recipe Editing and Recipe Ingredients
We've made a few adjustments to the Recipe editing module at Family Recipe Central that our users will want to know about.
Recipe Ingredients - Reordering the Ingredients List
The inability to re-order the items in the recipe ingredients list has been a frustrating limitation on our system. After you put your recipe ingredients in and save the recipe, you may want to change the order of one or more of the ingredients in the list. Worse, if you update an ingredient such as fixing a spelling mistake or rewording the ingredient description, the system will change the order of the updated ingredient in the list, usually moving the item to the end of the list.
We're currently working on an update release that will include a number of enhancements to the recipe ingredients list including a drag-and-drop interface to easily reorder the list.
In the meantime, we've provided an interim solution that makes it possible to reorder the ingredient list.
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The Family Cookbook Preserves Your Family History
More people everywhere are discovering one of the best ways to preserve the family history is with a family cookbook.
Our cherished family experience bridges the generations. For many of us, it would be nice if we could find more ways to establish more permanent and lasting connections. Better ways to document the family history, to preserve the family tradition. And to pass on the family experience, lessons and knowledge from one generation to the next.
Along with family scrapbooks and family photo albums, have you thought about a family cookbook? How often do you wish you would have paid more attention to capturing and preserving your mother's, grandmother's or favorite aunt's special recipes?
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Have You Discovered CalorieKing?
When it comes to cooking and recipes, lot's of people are happier staying slightly ignorant about calories and nutrition information. Counting calories and worrying about every nutritional detail is simply too much work. Let's just enjoy great tasting food, right?
But at some point in our lives, we are probably better off paying more attention to the calorie and nutritional content of the food we eat.
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