Oh man i feel kinda dumb for not testing it out on singleplayer.
I always thought that even if you made a global recipe in cnpcs it didn’t show up on the nei recipe hud, so that’s weird.
Maybe they used crafting manager or something.
You can download any not enough items version, just type not enough items in google, find the latest 1.7.10 version, and download it alongside the latest Codechicken core version for 1.7.10.