"Merely following recipes" is already more than anyone did where I come from.

[ Ugh, if she had to eat that disgusting orphanage food even one more day.. And even that was already an upgrade from the asylum. ]

Besides, I refuse to believe that there is not some special personal touch to them, considering it was not made by a machine. [ It's a very deliberate choice of words on Alice's parts. She knows Guri struggles with that, after all - so she's always glad to confirm she never thinks of Guri as just a machine. She's a person, just like any other person here. ]