XML to XSD to C# trying to create array keeps asking for Identifier in Main

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I am aware that this is probably a stupid simple solution. I have searched but I am trying to study alone and I am quite lost in this project.

I am trying to create a console based project for school that I would like to upgrade to one my wife could use. In a nut shell, I am trying to create the part of a recipe file that would serve as the ingredients of a recipe. The core of my problem is I do not know how to create the array in the MAIN program correctly.

NOTE this is only focussed on my problem area not full schema.

//My basic XML schema is:
<Ingredients>
   <Item>
     <Name>Eggs</Name>
     <Amount>5 Pounds</Amount>
     <Description>scrabled</Description>
   </Item>
   <Item>
     <Name>Eggs</Name>
     <Amount>5 Pounds</Amount>
     <Description>scrabled</Description>
   </Item>
</Ingredients>

//The XSD file shows this 
<xs:element name="Ingredients">
  <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
          <xs:element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="Item">
              <xs:complexType>
                  <xs:sequence>
                    <xs:element name="Name" type="xs:string" />
                    <xs:element name="Amount" type="xs:string" />
                    <xs:element name="Description" type="xs:string" />
                  </xs:sequence>
             </xs:complexType>
         </xs:element>
     </xs:sequence>
 </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

/*I know I am doing the XSD to CS conversion with the XSD command line tool reasonably well. I can make this work if I don't include the arrays. But once I try to use them, the main C# code complains that I need to include a type in my declarations.
*/

//This is the code I put in main, 
//after creating the public partial class calls. 

//Trying to create 3 ingredient objects with each object
//Having a .Name .Amount and .Description string items
rcpPage.Ingredients[] = new string[3];
              
rcpPage.Ingredients[0].Name = "eggs";
rcpPage.Ingredients[0].Amount = "50 Pounds";
rcpPage.Ingredients[0].Description = "Chopped Find as frog fur";

rcpPage.Ingredients[1].Name = "Lettuce";
rcpPage.Ingredients[1].Amount = "A Pinch or two";
rcpPage.Ingredients[1].Description = "Frozen like a brick";

rcpPage.Ingredients[2].Name = "Cat Fur";
rcpPage.Ingredients[2].Amount = "About 4 pounds";
rcpPage.Ingredients[2].Description = "Dry very dry";