Directions for making dish ready to eat around City (6)
I believe the answer is:
recipe
'directions for making' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'ready to eat around city' is the wordplay.
'ready to eat' becomes 'ripe' (I've seen this in another clue).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'city' becomes 'EC' (postcode for the City of London).
'ripe' enclosing 'ec' is 'RECIPE'.
'dish' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. It may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for recipe that I've seen before include "This will explain how to cook" , "Pierce (anag) - directions" , "Cook's instructions" , "Set of instructions for preparing a dish" , "Directions for cooking a dish" .)