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How do I turn a cookbook or handwritten recipe into a recipe card?

In short

Take a photo of the page from “Import a recipe”: Sizzle reads the text, even handwriting, and fills in the recipe card with ingredients, quantities and steps. You check it and save it.

Step by step

  1. Open “Import a recipe”Tap the + button in the middle of the bottom bar, then “Import a recipe”.
  2. Photograph the page“Take a photo” for a book, a notebook or a screen; “Choose a photo” for a picture already in your gallery.
  3. Check the recipe cardSizzle has read the page: check the quantities, especially with tricky handwriting.
  4. SaveGrandma's recipe joins the others, and scales to the number of servings.

A recipe you know by heart?

Dictate it: “Voice dictation”, on the same screen, turns a sentence said in one go into a list of ingredients and steps. You can also paste some text or write it yourself.

Try it with your next recipe.

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