After I import Meal-MasterTM recipes, the preparation for an ingredient is sometimes appended to the ingredient. Why?
In a Meal-MasterTM file, NYC only recognizes the semi-colon as delimiter between an ingredient and its preparation, and an ingredient’s preparation must follow the ingredient on the line or in a continuation line. Commas or other characters are assumed by NYC to delimit ingredient adjectives (which NYC puts with the ingredient) or to delimit multiple preparations for an ingredient (after the semi-colon). What you describe will occur if someone uses a comma or a character other than a semi-colon to delimit an ingredient and its preparation. Also, some people format recipes in such an ambiguous way that NYC cannot decide what is preparation and what is ingredient (e.g., putting preparation as an adjective before the ingredient). A prime example of ambiguous ingredient formatting is “peeled, sliced, potatoes” instead of the proper formatting “potatoes; peeled, sliced”. It seems that whenever I convert a large batch of Meal-MasterTM recipes, a few do not get converted, and are flagged as “
