create section without printing it

Question

I am working on my own recipe collection. I want to add sections to the TOC and maybe have them in the running head but I do not want them to be printed to the body of the page at all. Each page shall only display a recipe. The typical commands \section or \addsec do not have such functionality. The always print the section title to the body.

Is there such a command or is it necessary to create that on my own?

Answer 1

Something like this?

Code

\documentclass[a5paper]{article}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\newpage

\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Recipe 1}
This is recipe 1
\newpage

\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Recipe 2}
This is recipe 2
\newpage

\end{document} 

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EDIT

In order to achieve what you've requested in the comment, you can modify the above code as follows (hope I haven't misunderstood)

\documentclass[a5paper]{article}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\newpage

\phantomsection
\stepcounter{section}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\protect\numberline{\thesection}Recipe 1}
This is recipe 1
\newpage

\phantomsection
\stepcounter{section}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\protect\numberline{\thesection}Recipe 2}
This is recipe 2
\newpage

\end{document} 

Output:

Something like

\newcommand{\invisiblesection}[1]{%
  \phantomsection%
  \stepcounter{section}%
  \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\protect\numberline{\thesection}#1}%
  }

to be used as

\invisiblesection{Recipe 1}

could be useful...