This is a military specification for brownies to be packaged in MREs, not a recipe. Probably not much different from software specifications. It's not uncommon

This is a military specification for brownies to be packaged in MREs, not a recipe. Probably not much different from software specifications. It's not uncommon to find documents like this is government. Everything must be explicit so that there is little room for assumptions (I guess that's why it's called a specification). If you have a question about something, you refer to the spec. It also ensures that each brownie produced meets a certain quality standard, and that contractors producing the brownie know exactly how to produce them.