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Try this search (illustrated for the entire Library/Recipes but the same would apply for your Bookshelf/Recipes): https://www.eatyourbooks...p;f_ingredient_group=432 

Basically, you enter the ingredient you want, "hay", then eliminate recipes by Donna Hay by adding "-Donna" to the search box, and Filter By: Ingredients>Pantry ingredients>Miscellaneous (which is where something like "hay" and other cooking aids would fall). 

Originally Posted by: Deborah

Try this search (illustrated for the entire Library/Recipes but the same would apply for your Bookshelf/Recipes): https://www.eatyourbooks...p;f_ingredient_group=432 

Basically, you enter the ingredient you want, "hay", then eliminate recipes by Donna Hay by adding "-Donna" to the search box, and Filter By: Ingredients>Pantry ingredients>Miscellaneous (which is where something like "hay" and other cooking aids would fall). 

Thank you. That should help.

Another question. When I am filtering, is there a way to select, for example, both cakes and pies under the baking tab? Right now, once I select cakes, it limits the pie options. Or another example, afternoon tea and desserts, so that you get everything in both categories.

I know I can just search for one, then search for the other, but when I might be looking at thousands of recipes, I can sort in some manner, and only look at the top choices together.

MarciK, you can indeed select two Filters in the same category; I'm not sure what you mean that "it limits the pie options"? Unfortunately, there isn't a way to do the exact Filter search you want; the Boolean logic when you select multiple EYB Filters is "AND" -- selecting both Courses>Afternoon tea and Courses>Dessert will find recipes indexed as both Afternoon tea AND Dessert -- whereas what you're looking for is an "OR" relationship.

MarciK - as Deborah explained, our search is AND not OR. That means when selecting multiple filters the number of choices reduces down - e.g. I want a soup that is also Thai that also contains shrimp but does not contain mushrooms. Each time I add those extra filters, the number of search results reduces until I am seeing a more limited number that exactly matches my choice. If the filters were changed to what you want then doing that search I would see all soups, all Thai recipes, all recipes containing shrimp and all recipes that do not contain mushrooms. I cannot imagine that is what any member would want.

Now it may be possible that we could allow members to select either AND or OR as their filtering preference. But that would be a big change and to be honest is not a high development priority right now. But I have added it to our development wishlist.

In the meantime my suggestion is to have two tabs open - on one search by cakes and the other search by pies then you can easily tab between the two.