Online Cookbook’s editorial goal is to make a legacy recipe archive useful without misrepresenting its origin or certainty.
Recipe presentation
We may correct broken HTML, character-encoding problems, repeated headings, obvious spacing issues, and database artifacts. We may separate ingredients from directions when the record contains a clear heading. We avoid silently inventing missing ingredient amounts, temperatures, times, or steps.
Testing and experience
Unless a page specifically says otherwise, an archived recipe should not be assumed to have been developed or independently tested by Online Cookbook. Readers should review the full recipe, use sound cooking judgment, and follow current food-safety guidance.
Titles and categories
We may repair damaged punctuation, draft placeholder records, merge exact duplicates, rename confusing categories, and add descriptive category introductions. Same-title recipes are not automatically removed when their ingredients or directions differ, because they may be legitimate variations.
Sources and transparency
Known source information should be preserved. When source information is incomplete, we say so rather than supplying unsupported attribution. See Recipe Sources and Attribution for details.
Corrections
Substantive correction requests are reviewed individually. We prioritize broken measurements, missing steps, incorrect attribution, duplicate records, rights concerns, unsafe wording, and technical problems. See our Corrections Policy.
Commercial independence
Advertising, if present, does not determine which recipes are included or how they are described. Sponsored material or affiliate relationships should be labeled clearly.