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recipe/receipt

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I have some of my mother-in-law's and her mother's recipes. On some, she used the spelling receipt and on some recipe. I did a search to see if receipt was an acceptable spelling in the late 1800's, but came up empty handed. Can anyone help with this? I scanned the original recipes for a scrapbook for our daughter. I will not change the spelling as they as in the original handwriting and that adds character to the recipes. If receipt was an acceptable spelling, I would like to make a note of that in the scrapbook.

Mindy
 
Just found the info for which I was searching.. receipt is acceptable spelling of recipe. If anyone can add more info to that.. I would appreciate it.

Mindy
 
I have an old Charleston SC cookbook and the title is Charleston Receipts, my parents had one too. When I was a kid I could never understand why.
 
My understanding is that "receipt" was the original word, and that the word "recipe" came later. However, I think it was quite a long time ago that the word "receipt" was used exclusively, like back in the 1700s, maybe.

Is there a version of the Oxford English Dictionary online? It might discuss this. Perhaps Wikipedia or another online encyclopedia would have something, too.
 
Until the mid-1800's receipt was the word that was most often used, from the femine past particle of the same Latin verb, recipere. "Recipe" had predominantly been used for medical prescriptions (leading to the abbreviation R or Rx), with which culinary prescriptions had overlapped. It has been suggested that "recipe" eventually won out because it appeared more learnedly Latin.

See - http://www.answers.com/topic/recipe
Scroll down to see the description of receipt/recipe

and http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=r&p=5


Richard
 
In my dictionary is states it is an alternative to recipe (obs) i.e. obscure origin. My guess would be that recipe was simply a corruption of receipt (or the other way round) at a time when many people were only semi-literate. Spelling of the same word would vary dramatically as in the surname Smith which evolved into Smythe, Smyth and even Smijthe!
I was actually watching a programme on TV last night about the founding of Jamestown and they were explaining on that the difficulties of tracing family trees because of spelling variants.
 
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