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You should check out a book called The Flavor Bible.
If you think about recipes as programs written by other people, it should begin to make sense why it's hard for you to parse. The "code" is laid out differently than you would have done.
You could spend the time to rewrite it into something that's easier for you to read... or you could simply write the recipe yourself.
This book can help you do that by telling you what flavours work well together and how to get the best out of them.