See my comment in another thread about this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41700416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41700416 In particular t

See my comment in another thread about this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41700416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41700416 In particular the lemon meringe pie. You separate whites and yolks to prepare the filling and the meringue separately before merging them in the last step. >it'd be a false re-use Technically, recipes are monoidal pre-orders and I guess you could find arguments against what you propose in the mathematical foundation, unfortunately I'm not versed enough in category theory to articulate it properly.