That meme where people misspell “ingredients” as “ingredience” is fascinating from a linguistic standpoint because morphologically, “ingredience” really ought to mean something like “the quality of being ingredient” or “the attribute which makes a thing ingredient” – i.e., it would something you have, not somethingyou are. What is ingredience? Do I have it? Do you?
wouldn’t ingredience be a rating of how many things include you in recipes? So flour has a high ingredience; it’s included in many things. Humans have a low ingredience; not many recipes out there that include human (at least that we know of).
Ingredience is formally defined as the probability that, given a random valid recipe not including the ingredient, adding the ingredient will result in a valid recipe. As an example, salt has an ingredience of .98.
A significant problem is that there is no known analytic method to validate a recipe, and it must be done experimentally. Of course, because recipespace is infinite, this means that all ingredience values are approximate.
The question of whether a recipe validator is even possible is a central question of formal culinalysis.
The study of culinalgebra is complicated by the fact that ingredients do not form a basis in recipespace – adding one ingredient may affect the necessary quantities of others. Adding soy sauce to a recipe increases the amount of salt; adding an acidic ingredient in baking may require the use of more baking soda to maintain the previous pH. An existing ingredient whose quantity is not altered by a given change to the recipe is known as an eigengredient.
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