Recipe generation comes after the response and feasible region are defined, not before.
NIST lists the planning sequence after defining the mixture problem.
Planning should define the objective, components and other factors, feasible constraints, response variables, a proposed response model, and a design that can both fit the model and test its adequacy.
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