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Mangia!  has a special window for editing Ingredient Lists of recipes. The window is divided into two general areas: on the left is a group of text boxes and buttons, all dedicated to defining a single ingredient, and on the right is the Ingredient List, which accumulates the individual ingredients from the left when you click on the Add To List button.

You specify a new ingredient in terms of an Amount, Ingredient, Prep for Measuring, and Remarks And Other Prep. You can type into the appropriate text boxes, or use the Dictionary Button pop-up menus. Of the four text entry areas, only the Ingredient text box necessarily requires information. When you click the Add To List button or hit the Return key, the new ingredient is added to the list and the items are cleared, ready for the next ingredient. (if your next ingredient is very similar, then holding down the Option key while entering an ingredient will retain the contents of the text boxes.)



The following features apply to editing in the Ingredient List itself:

• Click and drag ingredients around in the list (if you have more than one selected, they'll all move).

• Select several ingredients by Shift-clicking, then group them to form a set of ingredients, any one of which can be used in the recipe.

• Double-click on a single ingredient to send it to the text boxes for modification.



Rules for editing in the text boxes depend on which text box you are editing:

The Amount box is very flexible about how you specify the amount of an ingredient. Basically, any two numbers (including fractions) can be recognized here (ex. “1 1/2 to 2”).

After the numbers in the Amount box, you can add a unit such as “cup” or “tablespoon.” Mangia! recognizes a variety of abbreviations for these, like “c.” and “T.” respectively, and you can add your own abbreviations by Editing the Dictionary and giving the abbreviations as Alternative Spellings.

The Ingredient box expects you to type (or select from the nearby Dictionary Button’s pop-up menu) an ingredient term or terms from the Dictionary. This text box will take several ingredients if they’re separated by commas, and holding down the Shift key while selecting multiple ingredients will add to the list rather than replace it with the selection. When you enter several ingredients, Mangia!  interprets it to mean that you can use any or all of them, so long as they add up to the specified Amount. In other words, they’re effectively a group of alternatives.

The Prep for Measuring box is meant to describe the ingredient as it is measured, and there you provide terms from the Ingredient Conditions in the Dictionary. For example, "1 tablespoon chopped parsley" refers to the parsley after it is chopped, so “chopped” would belong in Prep for Measuring. You can type several conditions, separated by commas. If you are using the accompanying Dictionary Button, then holding down the Shift key when selecting one condition will add it to those already there.

Any other remarks about preparing the ingredient for the recipe can be typed into the Remarks and Other Prep area. How do you decide whether a step belongs in Prep for Measuring or Remarks and Other Prep? The former is used when the step affects how the ingredient is measured. For example, if flour is sifted before measuring it affects the measurement, so “sifted” might belong in Prep for Measuring. Any other prep steps and any other remarks about the ingredient belong in Remarks and Other Prep.

Remarks and Other Prep can come in very handy in the common case of a florid description of how an ingredient should arrive in your kitchen. For example, a recipe may request “a red, ripe, juicy tomato,” but the closest term in the dictionary  is “fresh tomato.” In this case, you would put “red, ripe, and juicy” into Remarks and Other Prep to make sure the recipe’s intent is preserved, and you can still use standard terms in the Dictionary.