Keep a private recipe collection
A private recipe collection is your own set of the dishes you cook, with ingredients, quantities and steps, not a feed of someone else's picks. Holigram keeps it as a Recipes collection you can open, edit, export, or delete, flags ingredients that clash with allergies you've told it about, and walks you through cooking one step at a time.
What does a recipe collection keep?
Each recipe holds its ingredients with quantities, its steps with their times, and the equipment it calls for, composed into a recipe card with a servings scaler. Cook mode then shows one step per screen with its timer and the ingredient checklist beside it.
| Field | Type |
|---|---|
| Name | Text |
| Cuisine | Text (suggested: American, Italian, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, and 17 more) |
| Prep Minutes | Whole number |
| Cook Minutes | Whole number |
| Servings | Whole number |
| Rating | Rating |
| Ingredients | List: Item, Quantity, Unit, Preparation, Swapped From |
| Steps | List: Instruction, Minutes |
| Equipment | List: Item, Notes, Inferred |
Can I save a recipe from a link?
Yes. Paste the link to a recipe page and Holigram reads its ingredients, steps and times into a draft you check before saving, and the link stays on the recipe. Most recipe sites describe their recipes in a form Holigram reads directly; for a page that doesn't, a paid plan's AI fills the draft. A TikTok post works too when its caption links to the recipe, and so does an Instagram post when you paste its caption along with the link.
- Paste the textPaste a recipe's text into Describe and Holigram sorts the ingredient lines from the step lines itself, before any AI is involved.
- Describe itType "chicken tikka masala, serves six" and the AI drafts the row with cuisine, times and servings for you to edit before anything is saved. Ingredients and steps come in from a link or pasted text.
What can I ask my recipe collection?
- It's six o'clock on a Tuesday. Which recipes take under 30 minutes, start to finish?
- Eight people are coming for dinner. Which of my Italian recipes serve eight or more?
- You want to cook something you already know is good. Which Thai recipes have I rated five stars?
Does it know what's in my kitchen?
Keep Kitchen Equipment beside it and the two arrive linked, so a recipe's equipment list is checked against the pans and appliances you actually own, and the card tells you what's missing before you start.
Recipes is one of 60+ ready-made collections you can add to your Holigram.