A recipe explains how to cook something. A recipe usually tells about the ingredients and the directions for cooking.
- The ingredients of a recipe tells you all the foods that are inside the thing you are cooking. For example, the ingredients of a sandwich might be bread, cheese and tomato.
- The directions in a recipe tells you the steps to take to cook something. For example, the directions for making a sandwich will tell you the steps for making a sandwich.
Choose one of your favourite foods and write a recipe for it! You will have to make a list of all the ingredients and write the directions for how to make it.
When writing your recipe directions, use transition words to help make your writing clearer. Transition words include:
- First, ...
- First, ...
- Then, ...
- Second, ...
- Next, ...
- Third, ...
- After that, ...
- Now, ...
- Finally, ...
- Lastly, ...