This page explains how recipes get onto Legendary Recipes, what we check before a revised recipe goes live, and what happens when something turns out to be wrong.
What we publish
Home cooking from many cuisines: classic dishes, family-style recipes, holiday food and restaurant copycats. A copycat is our own version of a dish people know from a restaurant. We name the dish it is modelled on, but it is not the restaurant’s recipe and we are not connected to the restaurant.
Brand names are kept out of ingredient lists unless a specific product really matters to the result. “Baking mix” or “canned tomato sauce” works with whatever you have in the cupboard.
Checks on every revised recipe
- The ingredient list and the steps agree: nothing used in the method is missing from the list, and nothing on the list goes unused.
- Amounts, oven temperatures and times are realistic for the yield. If a cake for eight servings calls for a cup of salt, it does not go live.
- Prep time, cook time, total time and servings are filled in on the recipe card.
- US measurements come first; grams and Celsius are added where they help.
- Facts in the introduction, such as where a dish comes from, are checked. When the history is disputed, we say so rather than pick the nicest story.
We are honest about the limits of this. Not every recipe in an archive of more than 1,700 recipes has been re-cooked from scratch, and older pages that have not been revised yet may still carry the gaps described above. Revised pages show an updated date.
Duplicates and retired pages
When two pages turn out to be the same recipe, we keep the stronger one and redirect the other to it. When two different dishes share a name, each gets a name that says what it actually is, for example “Fish Paella with Chorizo and Prawns” instead of a fourth “Seafood Paella”.
Ratings and comments
Star ratings come only from readers who rate a recipe on the page. We do not add ratings ourselves, buy reviews or carry them over from other sites. Comments are moderated for spam and abuse; critical comments about a recipe are published like any other.
Corrections
If you find an error, write to us through the contact page. Once confirmed, the recipe is corrected and its updated date changes. Changes that affect the result, such as a wrong amount or temperature, are also noted on the recipe itself.
Advertising and money
The site is funded by display advertising. Advertisers have no say in which recipes we publish or what we write about them, and we do not publish paid posts disguised as recipes. Details on cookies and data are in the privacy policy.