Key Ingredient - digital recipes. real cooks.

What is Key Ingredient?

Key Ingredient is the best place for cooks to preserve and share the recipes they love on the Internet.

Key Ingredient lets you:

• Find new recipes.
• Share recipes with other cooks.
• Add new recipes.
• Talk about food and cooking in groups.
• Publish your own cookbooks.

What are the printed cookbook specifications?

Printed cookbooks on Key Ingredient are 8 inches wide by 7 inches tall. The cover is printed on 10 point gloss cover stock and is printed with a full color photo. The interior pages are printed on 60# white text stock and are printed with black ink. Each cookbook can have up to 250 pages and your book is previewed, page by page, before you place your order.

What does a printed cookbook cost?

Each cookbook is a minimum of 48 pages. If you don’t fill the cookbook, extra pages are marked for notes. Prices are listed below:

• $11.95 each for one cookbook
• $ 9.95 each for three cookbooks (15% discount)
• $ 8.25 each for six cookbooks (30% discount)
• $ 7.15 each for twelve cookbooks (40% discount)

Additional pages are 4 cents each, discounted.

How do I perform an advanced search?

To do an advanced search use these commands in the main search bar:

• To search cheese or milk type in: cheese | milk
• To group words use quotes: “banana bread”
• To remove words use - (minus): chili -beef (for chili without beef)

How do I format text on the site?

Key Ingredient uses a language called Textile to format text. It is really simple.

To make something bold just surround it with '*', like: *this will be bold*
To make something italic just surround it with '_', like: _this will be italic_
To make a list just start each item in the list with '*' on it’s own line, like:

* item 1
* item 2
* item 3

If you would like to make a link try:

"Key Ingredient Rocks":http://keyingredient.com
Which will become: Key Ingredient Rocks.

To add a link to another recipe we have a special format: @RecipeID
RecipeID is the number you see in the location bar when you view a recipe. For instance: http://keyingredient.com/recipes/5059/carrot-soup…
The RecipeID is 5059. So to add a link to that recipe in either a comment, an ingredient, or in a group, type in @5059 and you would see: Carrot Soup With Sesame Seeds And Chives.

How do I modify a recipe I like?

If you like a recipe but want to give it your own special touch, just press the “Clone” button while looking at the recipe. This will create a copy of the recipe that preserves a link to the recipe it was “based on.” That way the other cooks who like the same recipe will be able to see all the creative variations you come up with.

Note: not all recipes can be cloned. If the author sets a recipe to “Locked” you will not have access to the cloning feature.

How do I collect recipes?

You can collect recipes in four ways:

• By adding new recipes through the new recipe wizard.
• By importing recipes from the internet.
• By adding recipes from other cooks to your cookbooks (you can create new cookbooks on the collect page by pressing the ”+” button).
• By basing a new recipe off of an existing recipe by using the “Clone” button.

The clone button is available on recipes who’s authors have set their control to “open.” When you clone a recipe you can still see where that recipe comes from by viewing the “About” tab.

How do I import recipes from my blog?

To import recipes from a blog, we recommend using the Key Ingredient import bookmarklet (*). Once you place the bookmarklet on your browser’s toolbar you can simply highlight the recipe on your blog and press the “Post to Key Ingredient” button on your toolbar. That will bring the recipe text into Key Ingredient’s importer where you can copy-and-paste it into the correct fields.

* What is a bookmarklet? A bookmarklet is a small piece of code that works like an intelligent bookmark. When you press it, the bookmarklet copies the text you have highlighted and imports it into Key Ingredient.

How do I search for members?

To find a member on Key Ingredient you can use the main search bar at the top of the screen. First click on the magnifying glass icon and select “Members”. Then type in the information you would like to search for.

How do I find a recipe?

There are a few ways to find recipes on Key Ingredient. The first is to use the search bar at the top of the screen. Simply enter in what you are looking for by name or ingredients. Another way to find recipes is to use the ingredient cloud.

The ingredient cloud displays a list of the most used ingredients of all the recipes in Key Ingredient. To find recipes, simply click on an ingredient name. This will bring up another cloud and give you the opportunity to see the recipes that contain that ingredient. If you would like to refine your search further, click another ingredient to find the recipes that contain both of the ingredients you have clicked so far.

For example, to find the recipes that contain all purpose flour, egg, and sugar:

• Go to the Ingredient Cloud
• Click on ”all purpose flour”
• Click on ”egg”
• Click on ”sugar”
• Then press ”View recipes found”