RE: If that works, then try reading Using_Permalinks before setting a custom permalink structure again.
You’re advice was absolutely no help at all sorry seeing i didn’t understand a word of the stuff on the link. Also I didn’t set a custom permalink, i just clicked on the option of ‘postname’ and it created it automatically.
What did work was resetting the whole wordpress site and adding back each recipe to the appropriate url.
All fixed now.
