🍲 World Recipes

Real recipes from the Wikibooks Cookbook · ingredients, method, servings · free source, credit kept

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tukuk.org can tell you what rendang is and could not tell you how to cook it. This is that second answer: recipes written by cooks, with quantities and a method, read straight from the Wikibooks Cookbook and put on a page you can cook from on a phone with wet hands.

The Cookbook is free in the sense that matters: its text is published under CC BY-SA 4.0, so it may be copied and adapted as long as the licence and the authors are named. That is done here rather than waved at — every dish says where it came from, links the page it was taken from, and prints the licence and the photographer under its picture. Photographs are served from Wikimedia's own servers so that a picture is never separated from the metadata that says who may use it.

The shelves

How a shelf is filled

A shelf is drawn either from the Cookbook's own category ("Indonesian recipes", "Recipes for bread") or, where the category holds sub-categories rather than dishes, from a search of the Cookbook namespace. Then four rules: a page the wiki itself flags as unfinished — missing quantities, a method copied off YouTube, a stub — is not published; a page with no recipe summary template is an article about an ingredient and is left out; the dishes a visitor came for are put first, because a category is sorted by title and the first twenty-four of four hundred Indian recipes are the ones beginning A and B; and the rest are taken at stride so a shelf is a spread rather than an alphabet.

What is on the page comes from the source page: the quantities, the ingredients, the steps, the stated serving size. Nothing is added to make a recipe look better, and a step that the wiki wrote badly is left as it was written — with the link there so you can read it yourself.

Cooking from a stranger's recipe. Ovens, spoons and pan sizes differ, and a free wiki written since 2004 has had more cooks than editors. Trust your nose before the clock, and read the source page for the comments other people left.

Source: Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. Shelves are cached a week and mirrored to disk, so this page does not wait on the wiki every time it is opened.

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