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title: "Library & Recipes"
description: "Add recipes by hand or import them, scale servings, and keep track of what you've cooked."
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# Library & Recipes

1. **Add a recipe**

   Fill in the form yourself, or [import one from a URL](/features/import)
   instead.
2. **Cook it**

   Scale the servings up or down, work through the steps, then mark it
   cooked.
3. **Organize and find it again**

   Rate it, favorite it, add it to a [collection](/features/collections),
   or pull it back up later with search.

## Adding a recipe

A recipe has a title (the only required field), an optional hero photo,
description, servings, prep/cook time, difficulty (easy/medium/hard),
cuisine, and tags, plus a list of ingredients (quantity, unit, name, note)
and steps (text, with an optional photo per step). Uploaded photos are
capped by the server's image size limit — see [Settings](/api/settings).

## Cooking

- The servings control scales every ingredient quantity up or down —
  whole numbers, simple fractions ("1/2"), and mixed numbers ("1 1/2")
  scale cleanly; anything else is left as-is rather than mangled
- Mark a recipe **cooked** to stamp it with today's date and surface it
  under Recently Cooked

## Organizing and finding a recipe

- Rate any recipe 1–5 stars, or favorite it
- Search by title from the search dialog
- On a shared install, a recipe's detail panel shows **Cooking Activity** —
  which other profiles have cooked, rated, or favorited it

## Removing a recipe

Deleting a recipe is admin-only — see [Profiles & Access](/features/profiles).

Source: https://docs.recipery.dev/features/library/index.mdx