Main window

This is the main view where you see all your recipes. You can show a search panel at the bottom of this window and make searches using the categories or ingredient lists.

Example: To just view all your desserts, simply open the search panel and double click the "dessert"-category. To refine the search and view desserts with strawberries - double click 'strawberries' also.

Calendar

Just drag your recipes into the calendar. You can insert more than one recipe on each day. When you are done you just highlight a few days in the calendar and right click and select 'Create shopping list'.

Shopping list

The program sums all your ingredients for the selected period. You can also add things you need that not are included in any recipe. The list is sorted according to any of your grocery stores. Then just press a button and get the list in Microsoft Word.

Screenshots of other windows

The windows below aren't used as often, but they are important when you are building your recipe library. There are some windows not shown here, but they look pretty much the same.
 

Edit recipe

Edit ingredient

Import recipe wizard (cut'n paste from other documents)

There is a wizard to lead you through how to paste recipes from other sources into the PieceOfCake database. Recipes are stored on a detailed level (ingredients, units, texts etc are separated) so each part of the recipe has to be identified. This is done automatically by the program, but sometimes you will need to tell the program how to handle unknown units for instance. This helps PieceOfCake to read more and more complicated recipes - it is a kind of training. When you paste from Word or a web page the images (if any) will be imported as well.

Stores

Just sort the product groups in the order they appear in your favorite store! The shopping lists will be sorted according to this.

Languages and translations

There is a list of a cooking term translations between French-English-Swedish.