Creating and Editing Recipes

All of your recipes are stored in the “Recipes” page. You can view all of your recipes from this summary view.

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Default Recipes

When you open up Dailybread for the first time, you will see some default recipes. These are here as placeholders to let you know how our recipe management system works. You can delete them, or you can use them as a starting point for your own recipes.

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Creating a Recipe

To create a new recipe, click on the “Create Recipe” button on the “Recipes” page.

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Adding the Recipe Details

Begin by adding the recipe name, description, and yield. The yield is the number of servings the recipe produces. This is important for scaling the recipe up or down - and for use with sub-recipes. You can also add a photo of the finished dish, which will be displayed on the recipe page when someone is using it. Truly, we can’t recommend adding a photo enough. It helps your team know what the finished product should look like, and it helps you easily recognize recipes that you’ve created.

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Adding Ingredients

Next, you’ll want to add your ingredients to the recipe. You can add ingredients that are stored in your inventory, or add recipes as ingredients. If you do not have any inventory items added yet, make sure to start by adding those to Dailybread first. Your inventory and their associated costs, measurements, conversions, and quantities are the building blocks of your recipes.

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Adding Recipes as Ingredients

You can also add recipes as ingredients. Recipes added to other recipes (aka, sub-recipes) are a great way to keep track of things you make in-house, such as sauces, dressings or syrups. Simply create the recipe, and in the ingredient list choose the “Recipe” ingredient type from the dropdown.

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Calculating Costs

This is totally automated! There’s nothing you need to do other than create your recipe. Of course, you’ll need to ensure the costs of your inventory items are accurate. Dailybread takes your inventory prices and converts them into recipe costs, taking in to account the amount you have input per-ingredient. You’ll get live feedback while you tweak your recipe ingredients - allowing you to see what kind of financial impact each change has for your recipes.

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Viewing Costs on the Recipe List Table

You can also see the cost of your recipe on the recipe list table. This is a great way to get a quick overview of your recipes and their costs, allowing you to sort and filter by cost.

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Adding Recipe Steps

In order to build out your recipe, you need to add steps. Steps are the most crucial part of your recipe! They allow you to break down all the complexity of your recipe into simple, easy to follow instructions. You can add as many steps as you want, and you can also add photos or videos to each step to provide extra context for particularly tricky steps. Further, you can even add individual recipe ingredient to a step. However, you can always add all the details in later once you’ve gotten feedback from your team. To get started with a step, all you need is a title and a description.

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Adding Ingredients to Steps

Often, recipe steps include phrases like “take half the flour” or “take the flour”. But this frequently prompts the question: what are you referring to? To avoid this confusion and ensure clarity while someone is following your recipe: add a step ingredient. Step ingredients let you to specify which ingredient is being used in the step and how much of it is being used. This is a great way to ensure that your team knows exactly what you mean when you say “take the flour”. You will be given a summary of all the ingredients not referenced in steps - this helps you to understand which items are considered “whole”: Once you add a step ingredient, it will be displayed in the step. The summary will update to show you which ingredients are only partially referenced, so you can make sure to add the entirety of the ingredient to additional steps.