Recipe direction.
The crossword clue "Recipe direction." is answered by SCALD, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SCALD
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SCALD answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for SCALD
Every other clue in this collection answered by SCALD, most used first.
- Burn with steam - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Burn - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Burn with hot water - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Burn with water - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Almost boil - used 17 times, most recently in 2021
- Burn with liquid - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
- Nearly boil - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Burn with hot liquid - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Parboil - used 16 times, most recently in 2016
- Bring to a near boil - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Burn with a hot liquid - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Heat to near boiling - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Blanch - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Bring close to boiling - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Burn, in a way - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Cooking direction - used 7 times, most recently in 1991
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- Recipe amts. - TBSPS, used 28 times
- ___ in the right direction - ASTEP, used 27 times
- Dentist's direction - RINSE, used 25 times
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