Beverage Recipes

Add a recipe to a beverage item and Puree works out what each drink costs you to make. Your team also gets the ingredients on the Beverage docket and the event brief, and your shopping list shows how many bottles to buy.

A drink is built the same way as a dish, from the same ingredients library, so this page covers what’s different. For the rest of the editor, see Adding a Recipe.

Making a Recipe on a Beverage Item

There are two ways to start:

• From the Recipes page. Go to Logistics → Recipes, switch from Menu to Beverages at the top of the list, and click New recipe. The editor opens set to Drink. Choose an item under Attach to an existing item, or leave it on Create a new item and give the drink a name, category and price. Saving creates the item too.
• From the item. Open a beverage item’s edit page and click Link a recipe in the Recipe panel. Once it has a recipe, the panel shows the cost per drink and an Open recipe link.

The Menu / Beverages switch decides which items the Recipes page lists, and which kind of recipe New recipe starts. Each item holds one recipe.

Here’s a Mojito, with the amounts for one drink:

• 45 ml White Rum
• 25 ml Lime Juice
• 15 ml Sugar Syrup
• 5 g Mint
• 60 ml Soda Water
• 150 g Ice

To enter it, leave Makes at 1 drinks. Type an ingredient’s name in the search box and pick it from the list, then enter its quantity and unit on the line. Add your steps under Method and click Create recipe.

A syrup or batch you make yourself can be written once as a component and used in any drink or dish. In this Mojito, Sugar Syrup is a component: switch to Component at the top of the editor to write one. See Adding a Recipe.

Dashes and Drinks

• Dash is an ingredient unit for bitters and the like. A dash counts as 1 ml for cost. There are no shot or part units, so enter spirits and mixers in millilitres or fluid ounces.
• Drinks is what a new drink recipe makes, and it’s how the cost per drink is worked out. If you write a batch instead, set Makes to what the batch makes, such as 2 litres.

Entering a Bottle Price

You buy spirits by the bottle, but a recipe pours them by the millilitre. Enter the bottle price and Puree works out the rest.

Click the pencil beside an ingredient on a recipe to open Quick edit, or open it from the Ingredients table. Enter the Bottle or pack size, its Unit and the Bottle or pack price, then click Save. A 700 ml bottle of White Rum at $45.00 fills in a cost of $64.29 per litre. Mass works out per kilogram, and counted items work out each.

You can do the same from the edit panel on the shopping list.

Shopping List Bottle Counts

Go to Logistics → Kitchen reports → Shopping list and open the Beverages tab. Any ingredient with a bottle or pack size shows how many to buy under its quantity.

The count is always worked from the exact amount, so Round up only changes the amount you see. 2.16 litres of Gin in 700 ml bottles reads 3 litres and 4 × 700 ml with Round up on, and the count stays at 4 with it off.

The shopping list allows for any Waste % on a recipe line, so it can read a little higher than the docket.

The Beverage Docket

Under each drink on the docket, its ingredients are listed for that row’s quantity, so the docket keeps the totals. For 36 Mojitos, the row reads:

• 1.62 L White Rum
• 900 ml Lime Juice
• 540 ml Sugar Syrup
• 180 g Mint
• 2.16 L Soda Water
• 5.4 kg Ice

The recipes follow at the end, on a Recipes page on the PDF and in a Recipes section on screen, one for each drink. They show the amounts for one serve, with the ingredients on the left and the method on the right. A recipe made as a batch shows its full amounts and what it makes.

• Amounts are what goes in the drink, before waste.
• A dash stays in dashes on the recipe. On a row, 20 dashes or more read in millilitres.
• A component prints as one line, by name.
• The same drink on two lines of a quote is one recipe, and each row keeps its own amounts.
• Costs are never printed.
• A drink with no recipe prints as it always has, and a quote with no drink recipes has no Recipes page.

See Dockets.

The Event Brief

The Beverages table on the Event Brief Docket has the same ingredient lists under each drink, and the brief ends with the same recipes page. There’s no setting for this: if a drink on the quote has a recipe, it’s there.

API Tokens and AI Connections

An API token or AI connection needs recipes:read as well as dockets:read to get recipes on dockets. With dockets:read alone, it still gets the Beverage docket or event brief, but without the ingredient lists and recipes page, and no error tells it so. A download link checks this each time it’s opened. See The Developer API.