diff --git a/js/Recipe.js b/js/Recipe.js
index 91ea744b8..54d2865d1 100755
--- a/js/Recipe.js
+++ b/js/Recipe.js
@@ -359,6 +359,7 @@ Recipe.tiddlerOutputMapper = {
 	shadow: "shadow",
 	title: "title",
 	jsmodule: "jsmodule",
+	pluginmodule: "pluginmodule",
 	base64ie: "base64ie"
 };
 
@@ -423,6 +424,18 @@ Recipe.tiddlerOutputter = {
 			out.push("</" + "script>");
 		}
 	},
+	pluginmodule: function(out,tiddlers) {
+		// plugin modules are output as a special script tag
+		for(var t=0; t<tiddlers.length; t++) {
+			var title = tiddlers[t],
+				tid = this.store.getTiddler(title);
+			out.push("<" + "script type=\"text/javascript\" data-tiddler-title=\"" + title + "\">");
+			out.push("$tw.defineModule(\"" + title + "\",\"" + tid.module + "\",function(module,exports,require) {");
+			out.push(tid.text);
+			out.push("});");
+			out.push("</" + "script>");
+		}
+	},
 	base64ie: function(out,tiddlers) {
 		// For IE, we output binary tiddlers in MHTML format (http://www.phpied.com/mhtml-when-you-need-data-uris-in-ie7-and-under/)
 		if(tiddlers.length) {