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Looks good once the 404 issue is fixed. Perhaps for a future release you could tag / filter sources by country? A big problem for me in recipe search is avoiding localisation issues (e.g. Having to do all the conversions from cups; remembering that 'heavy cream' is somewhere in between single and double cream etc.)


404 issue should be fixed.

Tagging by country / locale is a good idea. Another thing I'm currently working on is using a data structure of ingredients instead of a flat list. This structure will handle things like different names for ingredients and hierarchy (ie. no dairy will exclude milk and butter as well.)


Here are some good UK sites to consider including:

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/tone/recipes BBC Good Food: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com Jamie Oliver: https://www.jamieoliver.com Delicious Magazine: https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/ Great British Chefs: https://www.greatbritishchefs.com

I should add that there are legal restrictions on scraping and re-use of content from third party websites; I haven't checked if the above permit this.


I gave in and bought a set of US (not the old British, nor the metric..) cups in the end.

I don't like it, but it beats using something else for a volumetric measurement.


IMHO it's better not doing volumetric measurement and doing everything by weight, having your mixing container on a scale the whole time and "resetting the weight" when adding new ingredients.


Yes, I agree, but when confronted with a bunch of 'cups' in a US recipe you want to follow, IMO using cups is better than a metric jug and a calculator, and also better than scales, calculator, and looking up densities.




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