Adding Recipes

There are three ways to get a recipe into your collection.

Enter it by hand

Create a recipe and fill in the title, ingredients, instructions, times, and servings yourself. This is the most direct way when you're typing in a family recipe or one you already know.

Import from a website

Paste a recipe's web address (URL) and RecipesByScott will pull in the title, ingredients, and instructions automatically. Review the imported result and clean up anything that didn't come through cleanly before saving — websites vary, so an import is a starting point, not always a perfect copy. The original address is kept as the recipe's source.

Scan a recipe card

Snap or upload a photo of a printed or handwritten recipe card and RecipesByScott will read the text from the image and turn it into a recipe. The original photo is kept with the recipe as a source image, so you always have the card itself to refer back to.

Scanned and imported recipes are editable like any other — fix a mis-read ingredient or tidy the steps, then save.

Once a recipe is in, you can organize and rediscover it — see Finding recipes. If you cook for people with specific dietary needs, those preferences shape which recipes get suggested; see Dietary protocols.