MealMaster Recipe Buster (MM_BUSTR) Version 2.0n (21 Nov 98)
Make MealMaster Recipe Buster (MM_BUSTR) Version 2.0n (21 Nov 98) at home with What This Program Will Do, Prepare Unformatted Recipes, Running Mm Bustr, Formatting Notes, and Mm Buster Cfg. Serves 2. Add it to your meal plan and shop the whole list in one go.
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Ingredients
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Method (preview)
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IMPORTANT NOTE FOR WINDOWS '95 USERS
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If you want to use the "/LIST" option: Right button click on the buster icon, go into properties, into the "program" area.
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It will give you a "command line" option, something like "C:\RECIPES\MM_BUSTER.
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EXE", or whatever.
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Just go into that line and add a "/LIST" at the end (with space before it).
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IMPORTANT NOTE FOR WINDOWS 3.x USERS
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"C:\BUSTER\MC_BUSTER.EXE" and enter that same directory in the "Working
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Directory" area ("C:\BUSTER").
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If you want to use the "\LIST" feature of buster, do as above, but in the "Command Line" area, include the switch, like "C:\BUSTER\MC_BUSTER.
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MasterCook Digest: "MC" plus 3 digits for the digest (MC271)
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EAT-L Digest: "EL" plus 4-digit date of the digest (EL1108)
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CHILE-HEADS DIgest: "CH" plus 3-digit digest number (CH177)
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Dave's Recipes from around the World: "DAVE" plus 4-digit date (DAVE1208)
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Fatfree digest: "FF" plus 3-digit digest number (FF210)
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EAT-LF Digest: "LF" plus 3-digit digest number (EL200)
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Jewish Food Digest: "JW" plus 3-digit digest number (JW070)
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Bbq-digest: "BQ" plus 3-digit digest number (BQ050)
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Gourmet Connection Recipe Page: "GOUR" plus 4-digit date (GOUR1208)
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MasterCook Digest: "MD" plus 3-digit digest number (MD100)
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Bread Bakers Digest: "BR" plus 3-digit digest number (MR100)
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FOODWINE Digest: "FW" plus 4-digit date (FW1207)
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"MM,X,Posted to MM-Recipes".
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Your recipe will contain the line "Posted to program to just ignore anything after the "MM" in the filename.) (4) If you want only the poster's name/e-mail address and the date of the posting to appear in the recipe, there are two ways to do this: Either remove the line containing "MM" from the config file, or change the line to read "MM,X," (make sure there is a comma after the "X"!).
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To prepare unformatted recipes: a.
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Place 3-5 open brackets ("[[[", "[[[[", or "[[[[[") on the line preceeding the title.
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THIS MUST BE ON A SEPARATE LINE. b.
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If you want to include recipe categories, who the recipe was by or came from, or serving amounts in the recipe, place them on lines immediately following the title.
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The program will recognize the following as valid tags
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H FILLING 1 c apples b.
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The ingredient lines in any recipe may have extra spaces in them, these will all be removed during the conversion process. c. The ingredients on "unformatted" or MasterCook recipes may start anywhere on the line, there is no need to remove leading spaces in unformatted recipes, or to have the MasterCook ingrients in their proper columns. d.
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The program will only remove "of" when it occurs immediately after the unit of measure (cup, can, etc), so the "of" in "1 can cream of mushroom soup" will NOT be removed. f. In unformatted and MasterCook recipes, if there are lines that you do not want reformatted (such as diagrams of how something should look), place a colon as the first character of each line you do not want reformatted.
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MealMaster will remove these colons when the recipe is imported. g.
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If any MC recipe ingredient covers more that one line, edit those lines to place them
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When working with files containing nothing but a long list of unformatted recipes, the ending "]]]]]" between each recipe can be skipped.
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Lines which contain an "x to y" amount, such as "1-2 cups" or "1 - 1 1/2 tsp" MUST be edited to conform to the following rule: Remove the dash between the two amounts and insert the word "to".
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NOTES ON ERRORS WHEN IMPORTING THE CONVERTED MEALMASTER RECIPES
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If you get an error importing a recipe, check out the ".
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MMF" file before reporting the error to me.
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If the recipe header shows "---------- Recipe via
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The posting string for file "MM330" will be changed to add the digest number, as in "Posted to MM-Recipes Digest #330".
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RECIPES,X,Recipes from the local newspaper.
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MM header line.
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
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Combine the sugar, cornstarch, milk and salt in a large saucepan.
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Cook, stirring, over medium heat until thickened.
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Beat the eggs lightly with a wire whisk.
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Add a little of the hot mixture to the eggs.
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Blend well.
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Pour the eggs into the mixture in the saucepan.
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Cook, stirring, for a few minutes.
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Add the butter and the vanilla.
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Blend well.
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Cover the surface of the pudding with plastic wrap.
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Cool slightly.
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Place a layer of vanilla wafers on the bottom of a (2 Qt.) casserole.
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Alternate additional layers of vanilla wafers with layers of banana slices and pudding, ending with pudding as the top layer.
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Bake until set (about 10 minutes).
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If you want to manually put a date in your posting string, place a line containing "DATE: " in all caps outside a recipe, and buster will pick that up as the date string to use.
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Version 2.
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0i now adds the capability to place a string in the configuration file, and have ONLY that information print at the end of the recipe, without any of the poster name and date included.
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MYREC,B,These recipes were typed by Glen.
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These recipes were typed by Glen. Converted by MM_Buster v2.0i.
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Minor problem fixed to handle MasterCook heading lines better.
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")" on the same line.
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The reason for this, is buster attempts to place this information at the end of the line, and uses the closing parenthesis to determine where to end the words to be moved.
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Buster will now halt and prompt you to edit the file to add a space.
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