Peter Jaros wrote:

Recipes are tricky. If you provide a recipe for chocolate cake as a "chocolate cake" recipe, that's POV: you're asserting that *this* is chocolate cake. If you include "Le Grand Pain's famous chocolate cake recipe", that's the only one of *those*. It's all in the presentation.

I think that's right, it's all in the presentation.

I find the argument that recipes are inherently POV to be unconvincing. It's easy enough to "go meta" with a suitable phrasing.

"Here is a traditional recipe for Key Lime Pie. This version is from _Traditional Recipes of Florida_, which quotes it from a newspaper article first published in 1857. Many variants on the traditional recipe exist, including those which use ordinary limes (instead of Key limes) and those which substitute sweetened whipped cream on top for egg white."

<and then we include the recipe cited>

If the variants are interesting or historically important, they could be fully included.

I think such a recipe would really improve this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_lime_pie

Please don't use my text above, it is sheer fantasy designed to illustrate how I think a recipe can be properly included.

--Jimbo