Hypercard sounds like a great idea for this.
I have my SE in my kitchen since it now controls my home sound system, and I've thought about the "recipe" thing. Since it's internet enabled, I've wondered about writing a simple internet app that lets you search for recipes on a good cooking website, and displays them simply.
Instead of trying to make a full browser, it's more like a dedicated website parser. Obviously when a website has a layout change, it might break it. I was thinking maybe I'd investigate XML and see if there's a standard, or maybe a wiki-type site. Something that will remain more constant.
Well, just thinking out-loud.
Back to the hypercard thing. I'd be surprised if there wasn't already a hypercard recipe app out there. I'll look through some of my old disks.
Nathan