Noted this in AWA. I’ve searched in documentation but doesn’t find any reference
Getting Started with Automations | Developer Documentation | SmartThings
You can also see the term in the description of this section of the forum.
When the rules API was first introduced, somebody at Samsung decided that rules that would be shared with other people using the rules API would be called “recipes.“
Only in practice, no one ever did call them recipes. Just rules. So that term has largely stopped being used.
You can find some community discussion from 2023 in the following thread:
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The Rules labeled “Recipes” in the AWA are automations created using “Smart lighting” smart app.
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Thanks @JDRoberts and @Paul_Oliver .
Thats why i never heard about them. Smart Lighting isn’t available in Brazil. 
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