What is a recipe in figurative language

Figurative language refers to the color we use to amplify our writing. It takes an ordinary statement and dresses it up in an evocative frock ... There are waves of other literary devices that color our writing, including alliteration, onomatopoeia, idioms, irony, oxymorons, puns, synecdoche, and more.

It is a method of using ingredients to create some thing for eg. food recipe

to be precise : a set of instructions for preparing a particular dish, including a list of the ingredients required.