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Today, I was looking for a recipe for shakshouka. This is always difficult to find because of the several spellings of the recipe. I tried chakchouka and shakshouka and then I had one that I liked. Actually EYB was very helpful at that point, as it was in the index of the book only as "Baked eggs in spiced pepper and tomato stew". All the same, I'm sure I'm missing out on recipes that are hyphenated or have yet another way of spelling the name.

So, would it be possible to link recipes (as opposed to ingredients) of the same thing? Just the more popular ones (such as shakshouka) would be very helpful already.

wester - I have now added shakshouka as a variant of the ingredient shakshuka so a search by one shows the results for the other. Prior to this there were 684 results when searching by shakshuka and 73 results when searching by shakshouka. Now you get 757 results when you search by either. I wasn't sure about adding chakchouka as a variant as the recipes for that seemed to cover a lot of different types of vegetable stews. But I did now add it so you should see the number of recipes increase shortly.

If there are any other recipe names that members would like listed as spelling variants please post them here.

gamulholland - re the merging of indexes I will need to consult our developers on that. In the early days of EYB we indexed some UK and US editions separately due to the different ingredient names. But after we added member notes and images we realized that would mean members would miss out on those when they owned the different editions. We now always link different editions, even when they have different titles, noting both titles.

I was searching for karkalla recently (an Australian native ingredient), but it is an alternative for "beach bananas", so the search also gave recipes with bananas and recipes for banana leaves. (Jane knows all about this, it did my head in trying to find the dozen'ish recipes using karkalla. (At the time I wondered why the system searches for individual words in a multi-word ingredient, but I am sure there are reasons.)

Also finding Khichdi recipes is the search that provides the most frustration. Alternative spellings include kitchari khichri khichadi kitchuri kicharee, and more.....

Dal (daal, dhal, dahl) doesn't seem to be a problem, as I guess that is also an ingredient.