Can I edit my recipes somehow?

[Zsar]

The tutorial shows us how to save a finished potion, but come chapter ~5 we would need a lot of them without the heating stage.

... Somehow I cannot bring myself to redo them from scratch.

I checked the save files and they are not human-readible. Maybe just Base64 encoded, dunno - did someone figure this out already, so I can shave off the heating stage from my recipes?

Alternatively: I had to be told that I even can save the recipe at any time, not just after creating a potion, so just in case: Can I apply part of an existing recipe and continue from there? Then I could leave the ones I have as they are - customer's older requests do not seem to disappear with newer chapters, they just also get new ones.

[Halloerik]

No sadly you can't modify existing recipes, unless you want to add onto them.

What you could do next time you brew the potions from scratch is save the recipe before heating and after heating. Also don't be afraid to brew from scratch. As you get better and more ressources you will always find better recipes than the ones you have made earlier

[ghosthermione]

I wish you could edit the legendary recipes at LEAST. So, if I had say, a Nigredo recipe with an older/not very efficient version of a potion, i could replace that part with another saved potion.
I often did not pay attention about the composition of the potions i put in the alchemy machine because i expected the items to be one-time, for the purposes of quests only.
Now I need to redo them entirely from scratch to switch around a single potion recipe :/

[Halloerik]

You can also just quickbrew all potions apart from one directly in the legendary recipe

[The Queen Salis]

Originally posted by Halloerik:

You can also just quickbrew all potions apart from one directly in the legendary recipe

yeah but if you want to bulk-craft the stone (to save resources) it will take the recipe you saved.

[pickupsticks]

So you would need to have a spare page of enchanted paper.
Go into the saved legendary recipe, and use the "fill this bottle" button on all of the recipes that you actually like. Then manually make a better potion to replace the bad one(s) in the machine, rather than using the legendary recipe for those.
Then, pull the lever.
Then save the new legendary recipe after you've created the new substance, onto your spare piece of paper. This seems to be the easiest way to change your legendary recipes, AFAICT.
Then you can bulk craft using the newly saved recipe (and delete the original one, if you want to)

Unfortunately this doesn't cascade to other legendary recipes which used the stones you made beforehand, so if you've "fixed" your early substances, you'd have to then use the better versions to re-do all of the other recipes as well.
Probably worth the effort, if the earlier potions were bad. But it is a chore.