If you are really truly out of all ingredients then there's no hope. But if you have at least one (1) of any ingredient you can spam that 4 times and be free
About the game: Are you pressing the buttons or the cards? Also are you using the windows version or the browser version? I just tried it here and it worked just fine
Dont worry that is how its suppossed to work! It means that what you see on screen is all there is, the lists is just that one screen and the books you go through them using the right and left button
Thank you for playing! and for bringing this bug to my attention! Turns out I put the wrong number in the part of the coding for that recipe lol but it has been fixed now!