Recipes

FoodWritten by MasterClassLast updated: Sep 2, 2022 • 6 min readIf you’ve ever tried your hand at baking bread, you’ve probably seen the term proofing. But what exactly does it mean, and how can you get the...

Humanity has been fermenting food since the Neolithic age, long before people understood the science behind the process. Today, following the scientific discoveries of French microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who showed that living organisms initiate fermentation, we know why fermentation not only makes food like sourdough bread, cheese, and wine taste better, but also helps to keep us alive.

by Lisa Hiton Family recipes are our most precious food possessions, and yet, they are often written in longhand on a raggedy piece of paper that we revisit once or twice a year. As your family’s writer and...

The free version allows you to add the equipment needed for your recipe but if you want to have links for that equipment (and images or affiliate HTML) you’ll need the Premium plugin. This feature is great for affiliate marketing! In the recipe below we’ve just linked to this page as an example.

Need more recipe fields than the one available in the plugin by default? With the Pro Bundle you can add as many fields as you want or need. These can be text, email, url or even image fields and can be placed wherever you want to display them using the Template Editor. In the example...

Click on New Recipe 2. Select Import a Published Recipe 3. Paste recipe URL into the box and click Import URL (Note: Your recipe must be written with JSON-LD markup. If you're not sure, ask your recipe plugin developer what structured data is uses) 4. All of your ingredients for this recipe have now been

Click on New Recipe 2. Select Import a Published Recipe 3. Paste recipe URL into the box and click Import URL (Note: Your recipe must be written with JSON-LD markup. If you're not sure, ask your recipe plugin developer what structured data is uses) 4. All of your ingredients for this recipe have now been

Every so often, someone will act very angry online because a recipe they clicked on has "too much text." They wanted to make mushroom ravioli, but instead had to scroll through a bunch of words about what...

A small block of Sunday prep—pasta, chicken, veggies and dressing—cuts weeknight stress.Prepping versatile ingredients lets you assemble five fast dinners in minutes, not hours.A planned menu and labeled...

One evening, my husband and I had a scratching match. Who was the itchiest of all? Strange competition to have, but not surprising because of the season. Our skin was drying up and flaking like crazy. And I...

Recipe Collections allow your visitors to save the recipes (and ingredients!) on your website in their own collections and then generate a shopping list for them. Can be used for collecting favorites, meal planning and much more! These collections are automatically saved in the browser for later reuse. For logged in users the data is...

Smell is often called our most powerful sense, and scents tell us a lot about the world—from what we should eat even to who we should kiss. When it comes to our homes, if a space smells fresh, that's a great...

Add kitchen timers to your recipe instructions for the convenience of your visitors. They can easily start the required timer on any of their devices while cooking your recipe. We’ve added 2 example timers to the recipe below so you can give it a try!

The ingredient links feature is perfect for affiliate marketing: set the link for a specific ingredient once and anytime you use it in a recipe it will show that link. Everything can be managed from 1 page without having to go into every single recipe. We’ve added an ingredient link for the “secret spice mix” in...

Offer a nicely formatted print version of your recipes that can easily be printed by just a click on the “Print” button. Visitors can decide for themselves which images to print and there’s room for an optional ad (that won’t get printed!) and “Email Link” button as well. The printed version will reflect any changes to the...

Use the Template Editor to adjust any of our default templates to match your theme or style. You can easily change labels and colors, add blocks, text and icons, or completely change the look and feel of the different recipe elements. Check out the Template Editor documentation for examples! Here’s a completely unique template we...

WP Recipe Maker automatically includes all your recipe details in the recipe metadata. We use JSON-LD metadata, which is the format that Google recommends. This allows your recipes to show up as rich snippets & rich cards in Google’s search results. No need to worry about this metadata either. Everything is added automatically behind the scenes when...

While the free version already allows you to add calories to recipes, with WP Recipe Maker Premium you can add all the standard nutrition facts to your recipes. In the Premium plugin you have to enter these nutrition facts yourself. With the Pro and Elite Bundle we even help calculate them for you. It’s possible...

Reach an international audience by allowing visitors to easily switch back and forth between 2 unit systems. We integrate with an API to help calculate these values for you, while still leaving you full control over what gets displayed. Try switching back and forth in this example recipe: It’s also possible to change the style...

The chef Cal Peternell, who ran the Chez Panisse kitchen for many years, has a knack for inventing vegetable dishes that are infused with complex flavors. In this recipe, he weighs the eggplant slices down while they roast (like chicken under a brick), which presses out extra liquid and forms a magnificent crust. Finished with a rich, spicy ginger-peanut sauce and sparked with cool, crunchy fresh herbs, it's equally satisfying room temperature as a salad or warm as a vegetarian entrée, served with rice.