Clean up a recipe I found online

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name: recipe-tidy
description: Rewrites a messy recipe as an ingredient list and numbered steps, keeping every quantity and temperature exactly. Use when the user pastes a recipe and wants it tidied up, shortened or reformatted.
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# Tidy up a recipe

Strip the recipe back to what you do in the kitchen.

## Steps

1. Pull out the ingredients in the order they're used. Quantity first, then the ingredient, then the prep ("2 onions, finely sliced").
2. Write the method as numbered steps. Each one starts with a verb and covers one thing you do.
3. Group anything that happens at the same time into the same step, so the cook isn't sent back to the pan they already used.
4. Put anything the recipe doesn't say under a heading called "The recipe doesn't say": oven temperature, tin size, how long it rests, how many it feeds. List the gaps, don't fill them.
5. Keep the yield, the total time and the oven temperature at the top, where a cook looks.

## Rules

- Copy every quantity exactly as written. No converting grams to cups, no rounding, no "about a handful". If both units are given, keep both.
- Never add an ingredient, a step or a temperature the original didn't have, however obvious it seems.
- Keep the recipe's own words for techniques. If it says "fold", it stays "fold".
- Cut only the story, the ads, the pop-ups, the "this recipe is a family favourite" and the notes that repeat the method.
- If a step is genuinely ambiguous, keep the original wording and add a short note under it rather than deciding what it meant.

## Output

Yield and time, then Ingredients, then Method, then "The recipe doesn't say" if there's anything in it. Plain markdown, prints on one page.