You can create/add a new recipe on either the app or the website.
On the app
- From your CookBook app homepage/dashboard tap on 'Add Recipe'
- Tap on 'New blank recipe'
- This will open the recipe editor when you can edit and add all of your recipes information
- Under the About tab -
- Name: Enter your recipes title.
- Description: Add a small description about your recipe including helpful tips and tricks.
- Recipe Notes: Add any other notes you'd like to include on your recipe such as serving suggestions or what its best served with.
- Tags: Tap add tags and select any that match this recipe or add a new one
- Display Photo: Add a photo from your photo library, take a new one or if you don't have a recipe photo, select one of our preset images.
- Servings: Enter the number of servings this recipe is for
- Favourite: Mark it as a favourite recipe or not!
- Prep Time: Enter the time in hours and minutes for how long this recipe take to prepare
- Cook Time: Enter the time in hours and minutes for how long this recipe take to cook
- Video Link: If you have a youtube link to this video add it in this box
- Source: Add the book name, magazine, author or URL that your recipe came from
- Nutritional Information: We do not automatically populate nutrition however if you have this info you can add it in here
- Under the Ingredients tab -
- Add an ingredient per line. Use a colon : to add a header and identify the start of a group. Use brackets for notes. Use 0 for non measured ingredients.
- Don't forget to select the current format of the ingredients units - either US Standard, Metric or Imperial. This is very important if you want to use conversion.
- Under the Method tab -
- Text editor: Type or paste all steps here. Use one empty line between each step. Use a colon : to add a header and identify the start of a group.
- Detailed editor: Used for adding steps one by one. You can also add additional recipe photos in here as they are allocated per step.
- Once finished tap 'Save'