Things put forward as worth choosing, with the choice left open. Every recommendation carries its maker's judgment.
Medieval Latin recommendare: re- (intensive) + commendare (to entrust): com- (together) + mandare (to commit); recommendations are things entrusted forward for another's judgment, spoken plural.
Things put forward as worth choosing, with the choice left open. Every one of them still carries its maker's judgment, exactly as the root's entrusting always did.