Posting recipes from cookbooks

[steorra]

Are there guidelines about posting recipes that came from cookbooks? I have some that I'd like to post but I'm worried about copyright issues. One of the ones I have in mind I could probably rewrite so that it wasn't just copied straight from the cookbook, but the other one is so simple that it would be hard to rewrite it.

My understanding is that at least in the US, the content of recipes generally can't be copyrighted, but I don't know if the wording might be copyrightable.