What is the definition of a standard recipes?

How the recipe is made normally is the standard. Usually if a recipe is standard, it has been tested in a test kitchen or been passed down from generation to generation, therefore making your mom, grandma, great-grandma, etc. the "testers" of the recipe. You will sometimes see this when looking through old church cook books if you have any.

Standard recipes list the exact amount of ingredients that will be used. For instance, instead of saying salt and pepper, it will say 1/4 teaspoon pepper and 1/2 teaspoon salt.

They are usually listed in the order that they will be used and grouped it necessary. For instance, some cookie recipes might have two columns that list the wet ingredients and the dry ingredients. If you are making a cake, there might be one column for the cake ingredients and one column for the frosting ingredients.

It will use proper terminology. If you don't know what a Word means, like the exact definition of "folding," look it up in a culinary dictionary. There are also small dictionaries in cookbooks such as Julia Child's French Cooking cook book and the Better Homes and Gardens cook book.

The exact numbers for everything will be used: temperature of every step, exact amounts of measurements and portion sizes.

Finally, the directions will be listed step by step in formal and simple language.