Recipes are notoriously difficult to patent. Here is information from the patent office: http://www.uspto.gov/inventors/independent/eye/201306/ADVICE.jsp. As the patent office suggests, trade secrets are often a better strategy for protecting recipes. http://www.uspto.gov/ip/global/patents/ir_pat_tradesecret.jsp
Good luck.
Answered on Sep 11th, 2013 at 1:33 PM