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Meta Improving recipe formatting

It's currently difficult to write out "modernist"-style recipes in the recipes tab. See the following example from Modernist Cuisine: It doesn't seem possible to create tables without resorting to...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by alex‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Zerotime‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar alex‭ · 2020-07-18T21:04:49Z (over 4 years ago)
It's currently difficult to write out "modernist"-style recipes in the recipes tab. See the following example from [_Modernist Cuisine_](https://modernistcuisine.com/recipes/striped-mushroom-omelet/):

![Omelet base recipe](https://modernistcuisine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Mushroom-Omelet-Base-4-1024x552.jpg)

It doesn't seem possible to create tables without resorting to ugly HTML. Is there any way this could be made easier in the editor? Perhaps by supplying a CSS class that could let us avoid lots of `style=".."` attributes in the tags?

The key formatting features here are:

1. The title ("Omelet Base")
2. The yield (300g)
3. The four primary columns: Ingredient, Quantity, Scaling, and Procedure
4. For each "step", the Procedure column spans all rows in that step. 
5. Numbering is monotonic through each recipe (can be done in CSS with custom counters)