In this task, you have to generate the named entities (NER) given its ingredients of the recipe. Named entities are the names of the items without their quantity.
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Question: 1/2 cup Crisco, 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine, 1 cup granulated sugar or 1 cup brown sugar, 3/4 cup hot milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla

Answer: Crisco, butter, sugar, hot milk, vanilla

Question: 1 1/2 c. flour, 1 1/2 sticks butter, 3/4 c. chopped pecans

Answer: flour, butter, pecans

Question: 3 c. unsifted all-purpose flour, 2 c. sugar, 1 c. oil (Crisco, Wesson), 4 eggs, 1/4 c. orange or pineapple juice, 2 1/2 tsp. vanilla, 3 tsp. baking powder, 4 to 5 apples, cored, peeled and sliced, cinnamon and additional sugar

Answer:
flour, sugar, oil, eggs, orange, vanilla, baking powder, apples, cinnamon