[jedmeyers]

And thus we usually do not have patents for songs, only copyright protections.

[WrongAssumption]

Recipes are not copyrightable either.

[throwway120385]

I would think if you embedded a recipe for sugar cookies in a convoluted story about how you tried different kinds and amounts of butter, sugar, leavening, and flour that you could probably copyright the story and leave derivation of the recipe as an exercise for the reader.