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A home cook uses Copilot to help balance the flavours in dishes they invent and then to write them up as an 'official' recipe. It isn't always right on quantities: for their chicken and bacon wraps it put down 2 slices of bacon, when they had used a whole 16-slice pack with 3 pounds of minced chicken.
I made up this dish and want to save it as a proper recipe: [DESCRIBE WHAT YOU COOKED, ROUGH AMOUNTS AND STEPS]. Write it up with a title, servings, an ingredients list with quantities and a numbered method. Keep my amounts exactly where I've given them, mark any quantity you've had to guess with [CHECK], and suggest one or two tweaks to balance the flavours.
Replace the [PLACEHOLDERS] with your own details before you send it.
How to try it
- Describe what you cooked straight after making it, while you still remember the amounts.
- Ask Copilot to write it up and to flag any quantities it guessed.
- Correct anything that doesn’t match what you actually used before saving it to your recipe collection.
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