What makes a recipe easy?

unfamiliar results

inspiration: photographs

inspiration: informative titles and headnotes

writing: comprehensible components (sub in bought components)

writing: clarity, accuracy, friendliness

cookbook apparatus: glossary

cookbook apparatus: cross-reference

cookbook apparatus: clean typography (type size, dark type color, serif/sanserif)

cookbook apparatus: ingredient list keyed to steps

familiar ingredients

short ingredient list

inexact measurement (not everyone agrees)

familiar methods

few true steps

timing: "until" plus minutes

timing: lots of latitude in times

what the cook brings to it: skills, equipment, organization, concentration, environment, attitude