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Standard Recipe Cards

What is a recipe?

A recipe is a formula, which lists all the ingredients required, and the method necessary to prepare a dish.

Standard Recipe Cards (SRC)

In commercial kitchens recipes are printed as Standard Recipe Cards, which contain detailed information on a specific recipe.

Some of the information found on a Standard Recipe Card identifies includes ingredients required to produce the dish, method of preparation, unit cost. The SRC’s contain much more information than this.

As a Cook or Chef commercial kitchen you will be given SRC’s to follow when you are preparing dishes. You will need to be familiar with the contents and how to read or interpret the information on the cards.

Activity
Go to the Standard Recipe Card (Excel spreadsheet) help file -

Roll your mouse over the recipe card to find out more information about each part of the card and the information that should be inserted in the various sections of the SRC.

What information does the standard recipe card include?
List the information in your notebook.

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Activity

Print out the Standard Recipe Card (Excel spreadsheet) or save a copy on to the c: drive of your computer. If you save the file you can complete the standard recipe card on the computer otherwise complete the printed version.

Link to the recipe file and practice completing the standard recipe card for 6 recipes.

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