# Betty's Recipes — v5

**Domain:** [bettys.recipes](https://bettys.recipes)

A vintage Australian recipe collection digitised from 195 source scans, with five layered features:

1. **Traditional + Modern tabs** — verbatim originals alongside metric conversions, modern oven temps, equipment notes, and food-safety guidance
2. **Structured ingredient lists** — every recipe parsed into discrete items, sortable and searchable
3. **Shopping list aggregation** — pick recipes, get a category-grouped shopping list
4. **Pantry tracking + "What can I make"** — mark what you have, surface recipes you can cook right now
5. **Cost estimation** — Australian 2025 supermarket prices wired to every ingredient, with live per-recipe totals

## What's in this package

| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
| `bettys_recipes_v5_website.zip` | **Drop on any host** — all JSON files + index + README |
| `index.html` | Static website with all five feature layers |
| `bettys_recipes.json` | Primary cookbook data — 1053 entries from 195 source scans |
| `ingredients_master.json` | 1,060 canonical ingredients with usage counts |
| `prices.json` | **Editable** — Australian 2025 prices, 275 ingredients, with density data for volume↔weight conversion |
| `bettys_recipes_v5.xlsx` | 5 sheets: Entries, Parsed Ingredients, Ingredients Master, Prices, About |

## Stats

- **1,053 entries** total (518 recipes + 10 cocktails + 455 individual hints + 65 hint compilations + 4 references + 1 note)
- **30 featured highlights** including the heirloom Mum's recipes
- **27 hand-curated modern conversions** for the most important recipes
- **2,958 structured ingredient items** parsed from 528 cookable recipes
- **1,060 unique canonical ingredients** in the master database
- **275 priced ingredients** with density conversion data
- **All privacy redactions applied** (phone numbers, full street addresses)

## Hosting at bettys.recipes

The website is fully self-contained — no backend, no build step, no Node.js. To host on `bettys.recipes`:

### Option A — GitHub Pages
1. Create a repo and unzip `bettys_recipes_v5_website.zip` into it
2. Settings → Pages → Source: main branch
3. Custom domain: `bettys.recipes` (add a CNAME record pointing to `yourusername.github.io`)
4. Enable "Enforce HTTPS"

### Option B — Cloudflare Pages
1. Cloudflare Pages → Create project → Direct upload
2. Drop the unzipped folder
3. Custom domain: `bettys.recipes` (Cloudflare handles SSL automatically if DNS is on Cloudflare)

### Option C — Netlify or Vercel
1. Drag-and-drop the folder
2. Domain settings → Add custom domain → `bettys.recipes`
3. SSL provisions automatically

### Option D — Plain shared hosting
Upload via FTP/SFTP to your hosting account's public folder. Point `bettys.recipes` at the host.

### Browser storage
User data (shopping list, pantry) lives in localStorage under keys prefixed `bettys-recipes-*`. Each device has its own — no sync between devices unless you add a backend later.

## Editing prices

Open `prices.json`:
```json
"butter": {"price_aud": 10.00, "per_amount": 1000, "per_unit": "g", "density_g_per_ml": 0.91}
```
Change `price_aud`, save the file, refresh the page. Prices flow through every cost calculation.

The file is sorted by recipe-usage frequency — the most-impactful ingredients to keep updated are at the top.

## Adding new ingredients

To price an unpriced ingredient:
1. Find its canonical name in `ingredients_master.json` (e.g. `"saltpetre"`)
2. Add to `prices.json` under `"prices"`:
   ```json
   "saltpetre": {"price_aud": 30.00, "per_amount": 1000, "per_unit": "g"}
   ```
3. If it's a dry ingredient measured volumetrically in some recipes, add `"density_g_per_ml"` (~0.5 is a reasonable default for most powders)

## Spot-check costs

With the default Australian price list (Coles/Woolworths typical, 2025):
- **Anzac Biscuits**: $3.27 (1× scale), $6.53 (2×)
- **Xmas Cake (Mum's)**: $34.17 (heirloom-grade fruit cake)
- **Margarita**: $2.52
- **Citric Acid Lemonade**: $1.07

These are theoretical exact-use costs. Add ~50-100% mark-up for buying real pack sizes.

## Version history

- v1 — verbatim transcription in source-page order
- v2 — categorised, tagged, hint compilations split, privacy-redacted
- v3 — Traditional + Modern tabs
- v4 — structured ingredients + shopping list
- **v5 — Recipe scaling + Pantry + What-can-I-make + Cost estimation (this version, rebranded to Betty's Recipes)**

## Privacy

Phone numbers and full street addresses redacted from every field. Contributor first-name-or-pseudonym + town/suburb/state is preserved (already public-domain attribution from 1960s newspaper publication).

## Future enhancements (ideas)

- **Meal planning** — assign recipes to days, get a weekly aggregated shopping list
- **Nutrition estimates** — kcal/macros per recipe (mirror the prices.json structure)
- **Image gallery** — link entries to their original scan images
- **Contributor index** — browse by contributor or town
- **Print-friendly recipe cards** — single-recipe print layout with scaled ingredients
- **Multi-device sync** — would need a backend (Firebase, Supabase, etc.)

The data structure supports all of these — just ask.