4. Searching for a Recipe 4a. Search ConceptsIf you look at the Recipe Screen there are three distinct text areas. Each area is indexed by every single word in that area. Each of the areas corresponds to a separate search area within the Search Screen. By combining search words from the various areas, very specific searches can be obtained. For example, you could search the word 'CAKE' in the title, 'Chocolate' as an ingredient, and the words 'whipped' and 'baked' in the preparation area. That specific search would combine all the searches into a single composite search and all the recipes that match would be found.On a given search, all chapters are searched. When the search is complete, the total number of matching recipes will be displayed and the list of chapters will be modified to include only those chapters that contain a matching recipe.
If, after you have searched, there are too many recipes to look through, you can further refine your search to be more specific, i.e. fewer recipes that match. When you only have a few dozen matches, it is faster to view the recipes to find the specific recipe you are interested in.You can always modify a search by deleting or adding to the entries within all three of the search areas. Blank lines are ignored in the ingredients area. More than one word can be on a single search line. You can tell if a search has already been done by looking at the description count area. If it says 'Total of 1,094,579 recipes' (or the total maximum for your particular disk) all previous search results are gone. If it shows any other Description, then there has been some search performed and only those recipes that matched the search can be viewed.If you want to start a search totally over, just click on the 'Clear' key. All previous search results will be deleted and your search lists will be empty. The Description count area will be reset to 'Total of 1,094,579' recipes.
4b. Title SearchThe top area of the Search window allows you to enter words that you would expect to find in the title of the recipe. If you enter 'Chocolate' in this window, only recipes with 'Chocolate' in the title itself would be shown. Even if 'OATMEAL COOKIES' has chocolate as an ingredient, it would not appear in this search. In the recipe screen, every word contained in the title window (except for the recipe number) can be searched and found with the Title Search. If you enter 'APPLE PIE ' in the title area, then all recipes that have the word ' APPLE ' and the word ' PIE ' in the title would match. A matching title could be 'APPLE DUMPLING PIE '. The order of the words does not effect the search, you could just as easily enter ' PIE APPLE ' and get exactly the same search results.
4c. Ingredient SearchWhen you use the Ingredients area of the Search window all 6 different text input lines can be used. You may use 1 or more of those lines to input ingredients that you require to be in the recipe. All of the ingredients are indexed. You may search on any combination of ingredients in any order within the recipe. When you enter a word in the ingredients, a matching recipe will occur if the recipe has that word somewhere within the ingredients list. If you enter two or more words, either on the same line or on multiple lines, then all the words must occur within the ingredients of same recipe for a match to occur. If you enter 'Green Beans ' you may get a recipe that contains both 'Green asparagus' and 'Lima Beans' All the words must appear somewhere within the ingredient list.
4d. Preparation Method Search
When you use the Preparation area of the Search window you can search all of the words within the preparation description. You can even search on the word 'the' if you wish. You can search on items that have been 'whipped and baked' simply by entering both 'whipped' and 'baked' on the text input line. The order makes no difference, only all the words that you enter must occur within the preparation area of a single recipe for a match to occur.
4e. Combination Searches.
All three search areas may be combined and will automatically be included in the search. For example, I can enter 'PIE' in the title area, 'Apple' in the ingredients area, and 'Smash' in the preparation area. After I have entered the search words into any desired area, I then select the 'SEARCH' button. The search is preformed and in this case, you will be shown that only a single recipe matches. The recipe is found within the 'Pies, Pastries, Cobblers' Chapter. By double clicking or pressing 'enter' with that chapter selected, you will then see the Recipe for 'Sugarless apple Pie'.
4f. Search Results
Any time you want a search preformed, simply select the 'Do Search' button within the Search Screen. While the search is going on, a window will come up, that instructs you to wait. As soon as the search is done, the window will go away. The number of recipes that match will be shown in the description count of the Table of Contents Screen. The list of chapters will be shortened to include only those chapters that contain a matching recipe. Check in all the chapters you might be interested in, as some of the recipes were put in strange places in the original cookbooks. Remember a pie could be found not only under 'PIES, ' but also under 'children's favorites', 'Desserts', 'Foreign', 'Holiday Cooking', 'Low Fat', 'Men's favorites', 'Old time recipes', ' Party Foods', etc.
4g. Wildcards and Search Modifiers
In any of the three search areas you may wish to look for various spellings of a given word. For example you might want to find all recipes that contain a word that starts with 'CRUMPL' in the title. To do this search, Select 'Search' and within the title area enter 'CRUMPL* '. All recipes that have crumple, crumples, crumpling, etc would be found. You can also do the following 'CRUM*G', this would give all the recipes that contain any word that starts with 'CRUM' and ends with 'G' as a title word.
You can also use a single character substitution of ? to replace a single unknown character in the middle of a word.
Sometimes it is desirable to find recipes that don't contain a specific ingredient. You may have an allergy or have special dietary restrictions. To eliminate recipes that have a given word add the '!' symbol in front of the word. For example you may not be able to have wheat in your diet, simply enter '!WHEAT' as an ingredient. The only recipes that will match the search, will be those that match the rest of your search and don't contain wheat.
4h. Jumping
When you display a recipe, in the title line, the first thing you see, is a recipe number. If you find a really interesting recipe, you may later decide that you want to get a new copy for a friend, or save it out to a file. Instead of trying to remember the search you did to find it, and looking at all the recipes you skipped again, simply select the 'JUMP' button. A window will come up, that you can enter in the recipe number. When you press 'enter' you will jump immediately to that recipe.
