Create new world
Set the gamerule to true
/gamerule doLimitedCrafting true
Collect some resources to unlock some recipes
Take the unlocked recipes or turn off recipe unlocking
/recipe take @a *
You can still craft items even though you don't have any recipes
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Just tested this, New world, started with /gamerule dolimitedcrafting true then removed the wooden,stone,iron,and diamond tool recipes with /recipe take @a minecraft:Iron_hoe then had a player with iron and sticks go into the crafting table and using the search bar was able to type in Iron and then make any of the iron tools still.
Can confirm.