To calculate how long a recipe will take to make from start to finish, read the list of ingredients carefully.

An equally robust recipe made conventionally would take about three hours.

The recipe takes only about 15 minutes to prepare.

The recipe often takes fewer than five minutes to prepare.

The recipes that follow all take advantage of these qualities.

These recipes, however, take things one or two easy steps further.

Let these easy recipes take you to a tropical locale, if only in your imagination.

The recipes take time, so this book is not for fans of the bread machine.

The secret recipe takes 4 hours to prepare each 7 to 10 gallon batch.

And few recipes take very long to make, a reflection of his own impatience.