Import, write, and manage recipes

Your Crumb dashboard is the working home for your recipe library. You can edit recipes that Crumb prepared for you and add new ones yourself at any time.

How the first Instagram import works

Crumb can prepare recipes you have already shared publicly on Instagram. We look for posts with enough information to make a useful recipe, then structure the caption into fields such as ingredients, instructions, timing, and yield.

You do not need to share your Instagram password for this initial import. We use public content that you have authorized us to prepare for your Crumb site.

Not every post will be imported. A beautiful food post may not contain a complete recipe, and an initial import may include only part of a larger archive.

Add a recipe yourself

From Recipes, choose New recipe. Add a title, then build out the ingredients and instructions. You can also add:

• a cover image or video;
• an introduction and notes;
• yield, preparation time, and cooking time;
• ingredient groups and instruction sections;
• one or more categories;
• draft, published, or archived status.

A recipe needs a title, at least one ingredient, and at least one instruction before it can be published.

Edit and review

Open any recipe from the recipe list to make changes. Saving a published recipe updates the live version. For a new recipe, keep it as a draft while you work and review every field before publishing.

Publish, unpublish, or archive

• Publish makes a complete recipe available to readers on a public site.
• Move to draft takes a recipe off the public site while keeping it editable.
• Archive removes it from the active library without immediately deleting it.
• Delete permanently removes it when deletion is available for its current state.

Bulk actions are useful when reviewing a large starter library, but review recipes individually before publishing them together.

What about future Instagram posts?

New Instagram posts are not automatically published to your site. Crumb is testing an optional Instagram connection that can turn complete new captions into private drafts for review. If that feature is available to your account, authorization happens through Meta; Crumb never asks for your Instagram password and cannot post or comment as you.

Until it appears as an available tool in your dashboard, add new recipes through Recipes.

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