Each recipe contains a short introduction written by the au thor followed by a list of ingredients. Then the method of preparing the dish is explained in detail. Generally speaking the language in the book is fairly standard British English. Additionally there is a great deal of cooking jargon in the book, words and expressions that do require some expertise or knowledge in the area of cooking. There are also a lot of loan-words involved in cooking.
British cuisine draws more and more on the cooking of Asia and Middle East.
The Cranks New Recipe Book introduces a large amount of vocabulary characteristic to British English. Food and cooking seem to be an area of life where a terminology clearly distinct to one particular culture and language is bound to develop. The food and cooking vocabulary in the book does not only present words that differ from American English partly or by the way they are spelled. Moreover, there are words and expressions that are completely different and only used in British English. The terminology concerned with vegetables introduces unique words only used in Britain.