Help on Recipes
Common Kitchen is not a recipe-sharing site in the traditional sense. Rather, it's an index of recipes from many sources (a "meta-index" in the jargon,) both in print and online.
To add a recipe to our index from a cookbook, magazine, or website, you should find the relevant source (start at the cookbooks index, magazines index, or websites index) and click "Add a Recipe," which should be with the listing of recipes from that source which are already in the system. If the source doesn't yet exist (for instance, if we don't have the cookbook in our index yet,) please go ahead and add it.
Each recipe has a title, a description (which can be as detailed as you wish, but please avoid including duplications of recipes from copyrighted sources!) and a location (a page number from cookbooks or magazines, and a complete URL from a website.)
Recipes can also be tagged to help categorize them, and an optional list of key ingredients (e.g. "eggs, flour, sugar, chocolate chips") helps those searching for recipes by ingredient. Finally, you have the option to bookmark the new recipe, either as a recipe you've tried or as one you wish to try. (You can also review a recipe at the time you add it.)
Click "Save," and you're done.
If you want to add a recipe of unknown source (for example, an unpublished family recipe), our blogs offer you a way. You can post the recipe to your blog, which then becomes the source. There's a check-box at the bottom of the blog entry page which will automatically include that blog entry as a recipe in the system if you check it.
