View an ingredient

While most of the 6400 ingredients in the ingredient database only have standard nutritional data, Living Cookbook is capable of storing much more detailed information about ingredients in the notes and comments.

Select the Ingredient Navigator tab.

How?

Select the ingredient you want to view.

Click on a heading below to learn more about the the ingredient view

Task toolbar

The task toolbar buttons serve as quick links to commonly performed tasks. Clicking a task toolbar button is the same as selecting the corresponding menu item from the task menu.

New - Create a new ingredient

Edit - Edit the selected ingredient

Delete - Delete the selected ingredient

Refresh - Refresh the current view

Properties - Modify the properties of the current view

Print preview - Preview the selected ingredient

Print - Print the selected ingredient

Export - Export the selected ingredient

E-mail - E-mail the selected ingredient

Comments

Use the ingredient comments to describe the ingredient in more detail or list other names for the ingredient.

Notes and source

Ingredient notes can be used to display preparation instructions, storage suggestions and shopping hints.

Image

Add images to your ingredient database entries.

Note: Images saved as JPEG or GIF files use the least space on your hard drive. If you own an image or photo editing program, resizing the recipe images to a width of 250 pixels works best.

Nutrition

Choose to display basic nutritional information (what you might see on a can or box) or detailed nutrition (everything from Vitamin A to zinc).

Recipes

The recipes section lists the first ten recipes in the database which use the ingredient.

Create an ingredient

Edit an ingredient