| 词组 | receipt, recipe |
| 释义 | receipt, recipe The status of receipt as a synonym of recipe has been the cause of some uneasiness and confusion for decades: • A perplexed correspondent asked Emily Post why it was that she used the word "receipt" instead of "recipe" in discussing cookery. Mrs. Post replied that "receipt" is a word of fashionable descent, used in this sense, so she preferred it to the more commercial "recipe" —Mrs. J. N. Cornelius, Birmingham (Ala.) News, 30 July 1937 A look in the OED doesn't give much support to the "fashionable" and "commercial" distinction made by Emily Post, but it does show that both receipt and recipe have been used in their synonymous sense for many centuries. Both words originally had to do with medicinal preparations rather than with food. Receipt is the older word, having as its first recorded use an occurrence in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (ca. 1386). Recipe was first recorded as a noun in the 1500s. Both words had begun to be applied to cookery by about the middle of the 18th century. Thereafter recipe gradually took precedence over receipt, and it has long since established itself as the almost invariable word of choice. Receipt is now most familiar in the sense "a writing acknowledging the receiving of goods or money," a meaning that it has had since the 17th century. Its use as a synonym of recipe does still occur, and it is not incorrect, but it has a strongly old-fashioned quality, and its appearance in writing seems now almost always meant to evoke the past: • ... boiled cider applesauce, straight out of Grammie Bowles' blue receipt file —Holiday, November 1973 • ... so she could follow a century-old Vermont "receipt" that called for cooking the whole fruit until it was tangy —Evan Jones, N. Y. Times, 6 Jan. 1982 |
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