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- RECIPE MAKER
-
- Recipe Maker is an application that was designed to help make
- weekly grocery shopping, meal planning and recipe organization
- easier. With the help of Recipe Maker, you will be able to plan
- out each meal for an entire week, and in just minutes have a
- complete shopping list of items needed to make those meals come
- together.
- Recipe Maker allows you to enter and store all of your recipes.
- Once your recipes have been stored you can recall and print any one of
- them in just seconds. Recipe Maker also stores and alphabetizes all of
- the different ingredients and measurements that are necessary to make
- your meals.
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- Recipe Maker is not public domain, nor is it free software.
- You are granted a limited license to use this product on a trial
- basis. You are also granted a license to copy Recipe Maker,
- along with the documentation, for the trial use by other users.
- If you wish to continue using the product, you must send $25 to:
-
- NickleWare
- c/o Bradley Nicholes
- 15817 130th Place S.E.
- Renton, Wa. 98058
-
- We encourage you to copy Recipe Maker and share it with
- anyone who might be interested in making grocery shopping, meal planning
- and recipe organization easier.
-
-
- GETTING STARTED
-
- REQUIREMENTS -
- Microsoft Windows 2.1 or /386
- IBM compatible PC 286/386
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- Before proceeding make sure that you have Microsoft Windows correctly
- installed. Next create a directory called RECIPE and copy the Recipe Maker
- software (RECIPE.EXE) into this directory. Then add the following entry
- to the WIN.INI file which is probably in the same directory where windows
- is installed.
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- [RECIPE]
- DBPath=<drive>:<path>\
-
- This tells Recipe Maker where to find the data files. The key word
- DBPath is set equal to the <drive> and full <path> including the trailing
- backslash, where the Recipe Maker data files will reside. For example:
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- [RECIPE]
- DBPath=C:\Recipe\
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- When the above steps have been completed, Recipe Maker is
- ready to be started. Simply start Recipe Maker by double
- clicking on the RECIPE.EXE file from the Windows MS-Dos executive.
- Recipe Maker will then create all of the data files it needs
- to run, and place them on the drive and path that was specified in the
- above entry.
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- MEASUREMENTS, INGREDIENTS, AND FOOD GROUPS LISTS
-
- The measurements, ingredients, and food group lists, are really the
- heart of the Recipe Maker database. These lists act as three separate
- buckets that hold all of the information necessary to put your recipes
- together. Each time you enter a measurement, ingredient, or food group
- into a recipe, that information is pulled out of the corresponding bucket.
- This concept makes for much easier and faster recipe entry and much less
- effort on your part. Each of these three lists can be selected from the
- main window FILE menu.
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- There are several FILE menu selections that are available to you
- from each of the three lists' menu.
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- ADD. Once a new item has been entered, ADD may be selected from
- the FILE menu. Recipe Maker will then quickly check the list to make
- sure that the new item is unique. If it is, Recipe Maker will add the item
- to the database. Otherwise Recipe Maker will tell you that you have entered
- a duplicate.
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- CHANGE. To change an item, highlight the item and then choosing
- SELECT from the FILE menu or double click on the item with the mouse. The
- selected item will then appear in the edit box above the list. Edit the
- item and then choose CHANGE from the FILE menu. Recipe maker will then
- check the list to make sure that the changed item is unique and store it in
- the database.
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- REMOVE. To remove an item from a list, highlight it and choose SELECT
- from the FILE menu or double click on the item with the mouse. Then choose
- REMOVE from the FILE menu. Recipe Maker will then ask you to confirm the
- action. Depending on your response, the action will be completed or
- canceled.
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- MEASUREMENTS LIST
-
- Some of the first entries that must be made before you begin to enter
- your recipes, are the measurements. These are the different measurements
- that you will use in your recipes. For example "Cup", "Tablespoon", and
- "Gallon" are some of the measurements that might be used.
-
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- FOOD GROUP LIST
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- The food group list is a simple list of the different types of
- ingredients that will be entered into Recipe Maker's ingredients list.
- These groups are such names as "Dairy", "Meats", or "Dry Goods". By
- entering these food groups, Recipe Maker will be able to keep all of your
- ingredients and shopping lists categorized, which will ultimately help
- make your grocery shopping much easier and quicker.
-
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- INGREDIENTS LIST
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- The ingredients list is a list of all of the ingredients needed to
- make your recipes. Before a recipe can be entered, all of the necessary
- ingredients must be put into the ingredients list. A food group must also
- be entered along with the ingredient name.
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-
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- RECIPE AND INSTRUCTION CARDS
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- When RECIPE CARD is choosen from the main window FILE menu, Recipe
- Maker will display blank recipe and instruction cards. The recipe card
- consists of the recipe name and description, while the instruction card
- contains the instructions, quantities, measurements, and ingredients. The
- recipe name, description and instruction fields are text entry fields and
- data can be typed in directly. Quantities, measurements and ingredients
- are entered in the same way as described previously for a list.
- Before a measurement or ingredient can be entered into a recipe, they
- must first exist in the corresponding lists. As the cursor is moved
- between the measurement and ingredient fields, Recipe Maker looks up the
- entry in the database and displays the closest match, if one does not match
- exactly.
- Before an entry is added to the list, each of the three fields must
- contain values. There may be times when a measurement does not apply. For
- example, the ingredient "eggs" will usually have a quantity but not a
- measurement. In this case the word "NONE" or something similar should be
- entered into the measurements list to indicate that the measurment does not
- apply. The resulting recipe entry will look like this:
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- QUANTITY MEASUREMENT INGREDIENT
- 2 NONE EGGS
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- After a recipe has been completely entered, it can be added to the
- database by pulling down the Recipe Card's FILE menu and choosing SAVE.
- Updating a recipe is similar to adding a new one, except
- all of the recipe information already exists on the screen. When
- the RECIPE CARD window is displayed, pull down the card's FILE menu
- and choose OPEN. Recipe Maker will then display a list of all of the
- recipes that currently exist in the database. To select a recipe, simply
- highlight it and click on the SELECT button or double click on the item.
- After a recipe has been selected, all the data will be displayed on the
- recipe and instruction cards. The recipe can then be changed and saved in
- the same manner as described above.
- To delete a recipe, choose OPEN from the FILE menu, select a recipe,
- and then choose DELETE from the FILE menu. Recipe Maker will then delete
- the recipe from the database.
- To print a recipe, choose OPEN from the FILE menu, select a recipe,
- and then choose PRINT from the FILE menu. Recipe Maker will then format
- the recipe information and print it.
-
-
- WEEKLY PLAN AND SHOPPING LIST
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- The WEEKLY PLAN window allows you to plan out an entire week of meals
- and have Recipe Maker compile a shopping list to match your plan. Once
- this selection has been made, Recipe Maker will display a window containing
- a list for each day of the week plus a miscellaneous list, and a list of
- all of the recipes in the database. The way to plan out a week is to
- highlight a recipe in the recipe list, pull down the WEEKDAYS menu and
- choose a day. Recipe Maker will place the name of the selected recipe
- in that day's list. When you have finished planning the week, pull down
- the FILE menu and choose CREATE LIST. Recipe Maker will then compile a
- list of all the ingredients needed to make the selected recipes.
-
- If you have just created the shopping list from the WEEKLY PLAN
- window, you will most likely want to edit or add to it. After selecting
- the SHOPPING LIST window, Recipe Maker will display the shopping list
- and give you the option to add, change or remove any item, or print
- the list. You also have the option to indicate the quantity to
- buy. Once the shopping list has been edited completely, it is then ready
- to be printed. Turn your printer on and choose PRINT from the FILE menu.
- Recipe Maker will then categorize the list by food group and print out
- your shopping list.
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- SPECIAL FEATURES
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- DRAG AND DROP - Whenever an item is being transfered from one list to
- another, the item may dragged and dropped. This means that an item can be
- selecting with the mouse pointer, and while still holding the mouse button
- down, position the mouse pointer on top of the destination entry field.
- When the mouse button is released the selected item will appear in
- the entry field. For example, if an ingredient is being added to a recipe,
- the ingredient can be dragged and dropped from the ingredients list to the
- ingredient field on the instruction card.
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- CLIPBOARD - The clipboard is a convenient way of transferring data
- between Recipe Maker and other Windows application or between different
- Recipe Maker windows. To use the clipboard functions simply highlight any
- text that is displayed in an entry field, pull down the EDIT menu and
- choose COPY or CUT. The COPY function will place a copy of the highlighted
- text in the Windows clipboard. The CUT function also places the highlighted
- text in the clipboard but also removes it from the entry field. To retrieve
- text from the clipboard, place the cursor at the position inside an
- entry field where the clipboard text should be inserted or appended. Then
- pull down the EDIT menu and choose PASTE. The clipboard text will be
- placed in the entry field at the cursor position.
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- EXITING
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- When you have finished using Recipe Maker, you should exit
- via the EXIT from the main window's FILE menu. If you forget and turn
- your computer off before exiting, Recipe Maker can not guarantee
- that your recipes have been saved completely. It is very
- important that you always exit Recipe Maker via this selection.
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- GOOD LUCK AND EASY SHOPPING!!!
-
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- This documentation must accompany the Recipe Maker software.
-
- NickleWare
- Copyright (C) 1990 Bradley Nicholes
-