Recipe Table

List the ingredients, then say which ones each step uses. The table puts each step in its own column and stretches every instruction across the ingredients it touches.

Start from a recipe in the book

1 · Recipe

2 · Ingredients

One box per ingredient. Press Enter inside a box for a second line, like “(diced)”.

    3 · Steps

    Each step is a column. Click the ingredients a step uses (shift-click picks a range). Things done at the same time, like melting butter while you whisk the flour, go in the same step as separate actions.

    4 · Groups optional

    Label a run of ingredients, like “Crust” and “Filling”. The label runs down the left edge of the table.

    5 · Table

    reorders the ingredients so each step and group stays in one piece

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