The finer points

Several recipes in one email

The rule of thumb: one email is assumed to hold one recipe, however many photos are attached. That is what makes multi-photo recipes (a two-page spread, ingredients and instructions photographed separately) come out as a single entry instead of fragments.

Two things override that assumption:

1. You say so. Write it in the subject or body in any natural way, in English or French — “2 recipes”, “several recipes attached”, “3 recettes différentes”. No special wording is needed. If you give a count, that count is used. When your note is ambiguous, fewer recipes are preferred over more.
2. One photo plainly shows several recipes. A magazine page that prints three complete recipes, each with its own title and ingredient list, comes through as three entries — you don’t need to say anything.

What you do to send several recipes at once

1. Attach all the photos to one email.
2. In the subject or body, say how many recipes there are (e.g. “2 recipes”).
3. Send it to paprika@traveller.org.

Each recipe gets its own entry in Paprika, its own photo, and its own web page. You still get a single reply email, listing every recipe and how each one was delivered — imported directly, or attached as a file to tap.

Two limits to know about:

• At most 8 photos per email are processed. If you attach more, the reply tells you how many were left out — send the rest in a second email.
• A link or pasted-text email produces one recipe. If a web page or text contains several, the main (first) one is taken.

The recipe web pages

Every recipe you submit also gets its own web page, and the reply email links to it. The page shows the photo, ingredients, directions, timings and notes in a clean layout — handy for cooking from a browser, or for sending a recipe to someone who doesn’t use Paprika.

About the address:

• The link is a long random code that cannot be guessed, and the pages are marked so search engines do not index them. There is no list or index page anywhere — the only way to a recipe page is its link.
• But the page is not password-protected: anyone you give the link to can open it. Treat the link like the recipe itself.

Translations

At the moment translation runs both ways: a French recipe gets an English translation, an English recipe gets a French one.

The translation never touches the recipe itself. It is added as a clearly separated block at the very bottom of the recipe’s Notes field in Paprika, and at the bottom of the web page, headed “ENGLISH TRANSLATION (for reference)” or “TRADUCTION FRANÇAISE (pour référence)”. The recipe stays in its original language; quantities are never changed, though unit words are translated naturally (“cuillère à soupe” ↔ “tablespoon”).

If a translation can’t be produced for some reason, the recipe still comes through — just without the translation block.

This both-ways setting can be changed (French-to-English only, or off entirely), but that is a change to the system’s configuration, not something you do from an email — ask whoever maintains the pipeline.