I have heard also that this is done as an anti-scraping tactic. If your recipes are all nicely and consistently formatted, someone can steal all your content. I

I have heard also that this is done as an anti-scraping tactic. If your recipes are all nicely and consistently formatted, someone can steal all your content. If on the other hand you write it all in prose or at least intermixed with prose, any competitor will have to do each recipe by hand.