diff --git a/docs/using/recipes.md b/docs/using/recipes.md
index 53cad8ca..95cbaefd 100644
--- a/docs/using/recipes.md
+++ b/docs/using/recipes.md
@@ -535,9 +535,11 @@ Please note that the Delta lake packages are only available for Spark version >
 ```dockerfile
 FROM jupyter/pyspark-notebook:latest
 
+ARG delta-core_version="0.8.0"
+
 USER root
 
-RUN echo 'spark.jars.packages io.delta:delta-core_2.12:0.8.0' >> $SPARK_HOME/conf/spark-defaults.conf && \
+RUN echo "spark.jars.packages io.delta:delta-core_2.12:${delta-core_version}" >> $SPARK_HOME/conf/spark-defaults.conf && \
     echo 'spark.sql.extensions io.delta.sql.DeltaSparkSessionExtension' >> $SPARK_HOME/conf/spark-defaults.conf && \
  echo 'spark.sql.catalog.spark_catalog org.apache.spark.sql.delta.catalog.DeltaCatalog' >> $SPARK_HOME/conf/spark-defaults.conf