handed-down recipe
nounUK /ˌhændɪd ˈdaʊn ˈrɛsəpi/
US /ˌhændɪd ˈdaʊn ˈrɛsəpi/
A handed-down recipe is a recipe that someone in your family gives to you.
My grandmother's handed-down recipe for apple pie is my favorite.
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2. A recipe copied by hand from an older relative and kept as a keepsake.
She keeps her mother's handed-down recipe in a wooden box.
3. A cooking method that has been taught from one generation to the next.
The handed-down recipe for the sauce has not changed in a hundred years.
4. A recipe shared informally among friends rather than published in a book.
He got the handed-down recipe from a neighbor.