Type or paste the method into One step per line. Each line becomes a numbered step on the card.

Preheat the oven to 375°F.
Whisk the flour and baking soda.
Beat the butter and sugars until fluffy, about 3 minutes.

Rules

  • Each line is one step. A blank line doesn’t create an empty step.
  • Numbers you paste in front (1., 2), Step 3:) are removed, because the card numbers steps itself.
  • Keep a step to one instruction or one short paragraph. Very long steps are harder to follow on a phone.

Groups (“Make the dough”)

  1. Click + Add instruction group.
  2. Name it in Group name (e.g. Make the dough, Assemble).
  3. Put that group’s steps in its box.

Numbering restarts in each group. In Google’s recipe data each group becomes a named section (HowToSection); an unnamed group is called Part 1, Part 2 and so on.

Step photos

Step photos appear under the step they belong to. Recipes brought in from another plugin keep their step photos (see Importing).

Step photos stay with their step when you add, remove or reorder other steps. If you rewrite a step’s text and add or remove steps in the same edit, check its photo is still in the right place.

On the card

  • Readers can tap a step to tick it off (it fades and is struck through), handy when cooking. See Reader features.
  • Each step has its own anchor, so Google can link straight to a step. See Google recipe data.