Water bottle does not get transfered from inventory when a custom recipe is selected from in game recipie book.

I created a recipe using a water bottle in the center and 4 vines (above, below, left, right) to create one slimeball. when selected from the recipe book the vines were moved but the water bottle was not. The recipe itself still functions as when I manually placed it onto the crafting grid it created the slimeball, it seems like it's just the water bottle is bugged in this regard.