Magician Table's CraftTweaker integration unable to match ItemStacks with NBT?

[Matryoshika]

I'm trying to use the Magician Table's CraftTweaker integration, and change the [Research Book T1 -> Research Book T2] recipe. However, this get's logged in the CraftTweaker log.

INITIALIZATION][CLIENT][WARNING] No recipe for [essentialcraft:research_book.withTag({tier: 1})]

I have tried using both
mods.essentialcraft.MagicianTable.removeRecipe([<essentialcraft:research_book>.withTag({tier: 1})]); and
mods.essentialcraft.MagicianTable.removeRecipe([<essentialcraft:research_book>.withTag({tier: 1})], <essentialcraft:research_book>.withTag({tier: 2}));

----Edit: Forgot to mention
EssentialCraft-4.9.112.3
Forge-14.23.2.2621
Minecraft-1.12.2