Now I'm trying to find out such examples of actually recursive recipe and I only find examples based on fermentation, which have a way to be bootstrapped but are then actually recursive: kombucha, kefir, vinegar, levain.
Is there anything else?
This recursive dependency is not visualized sadly. Fun website nonetheless!
[0] https://youtu.be/2VrsmahNcfI?si=iDrWhkeAhrSQNMIF&t=549 Bon Appétit making gourmet Andes Mints
- 1 unit of vodka
- 2 units of water
- 3 units of Cocktail Recursive
(Where the salad the consituent is an alias for lettuce)
I can't imagine Russians mixing vodka with water, though.
Recursion doesn't imply infinite recursion; a recipe doesn't have to invoke itself to be a recursive recipe. Surely a recursive recipe is just a recipe that invokes a recipe.
This is completely normal; see Escoffier. E.g. for Cod Mornay, "Make a roux".
Escoffier's recipes were often just a single paragraph; you were supposed to know how the target tastes and looks.
Making sourdough is arguably infinitely recursive. You can break the recursion by looking up "Make a sourdough starter".
Er, no. That IS exactly what recursion means. It doesn't have to be infinite - there can be a halt condition - but if something doesn't call itself, it is not recursive.
These are not recursive recipes at all; they're just nested.
No, a recursive recipe is one that (directly or indirectly) invokes _itself_. That's the whole point of recursion (literally, come back (=re) turning (=cur)).
And don't call me Shirley.
But in that case the recipe for refried beans isn't recursive; there are no refried beans in the ingredients for refried beans, even if you grow your own beans as part of the recipe.
I had a boss who liked to be obeyed immediately; if you said you'd do it shortly, he'd say "Don't call me Shortly". He wasn't very tall.
Throw away the kernels, get more fruit.