How to re-enable the recipe book in BMC4 (and potentially other mods)

Hey all. Some hate the recipe book and that's cool, but if you want to play with it again like I did, there's not a single answer on Google that'll tell you how, so I went digging.

Head on over to your Curseforge mod installation (just right click on the mod, select 'Open Folder'. In this example, mine is "C:\Minecraft Mods\Instances\Better MC [FORGE] - BMC4\config"

In there you're gonna find a file called 'recipeessentials.json'. Go ahead and open that in Notepad.

Change the first line that reads

{ "disableRecipebook": { "desc:": "Whether to disable the recipe book entirely, removes the button on client side and removes synced data on server side: default:false", "disableRecipebook": true

change true to false, save the file, then restart BMC. why this is disabled by default and why the developer's answer is just "don't use the recipe book" when it can work alongside JEI just fine is beyond me, but there you go.

That's it, you can use the recipe book again, alongside JEI. Hope this helps anyone who's been looking! I've seen a few posts without answers on this sub and a few other websites.