Review or restore a dish version

Find the dish’s earlier saves

Saving a dish creates a version. History helps you understand earlier recipe changes and recover a previous dish definition without erasing the record of what happened.

1. Open the saved Dishcard from Your menu.
2. Choose Version history.
3. Compare the listed versions, dates, authors, and displayed recipe details.
4. Identify the version that contains the dish definition you intend to use.

No earlier versions yet means there is not an earlier save to choose. History belongs to that dish; a newly duplicated dish is a separate record. History is not a recycle bin for deleted dishes.

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Restore as a new saved version

1. With editing access, select Restore on the intended version.
2. Read Restore this version?.
3. Confirm with Restore version only after checking the intended record.
4. Open the returned Dishcard and inspect its ingredients, flags, variants, notes, and availability.

A restoration becomes a new saved version. Ingredient definitions use their current values. Restoring an old dish does not rewind the supplier product or ingredient flags to an earlier date.

If ingredients have been merged, Dishcard can resolve older references to the retained ingredient records and show a review notice. Treat that notice as a prompt to check the resulting recipe rather than a promise that today’s ingredient facts exactly match the old save.

Review the result before sharing it

Check every source of the displayed flags, including compound ingredients and recorded overrides. A restored dish can affect every menu that includes it. Preview those menus, generate fresh PDFs, and replace printed copies if the saved information changed.

If restoration fails, read the error and confirm the dish still exists, your account can edit, and the referenced ingredients remain valid. The failed attempt is not evidence that a new version was saved. Reopen the dish and history to inspect the current record before trying again.

If the problem is a supplier change rather than the dish definition, update the ingredient record instead. Use history to recover the intended recipe, then verify that it matches what the kitchen will make now.