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Post by jumperhop on Jul 4, 2017 21:24:26 GMT
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Post by littlemama on Jul 4, 2017 21:31:23 GMT
Lol, now she should go on allrecipes and criticize the recipe!
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Post by RosieKat on Jul 4, 2017 21:34:56 GMT
And no curry, so she used mustard because it's got that same yellow color...and no water, so she used apple juice...
I validate your frustration!
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Post by mikklynn on Jul 4, 2017 23:18:12 GMT
Oh, no!
Mine is the opposite. I'll make something I think is fabulous, MIL will ask for the recipe, then tell me she made it and how she made it better.
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Post by peano on Jul 4, 2017 23:23:51 GMT
I love mulligatawny soup.
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Post by freecharlie on Jul 4, 2017 23:37:27 GMT
I don't mind some of the substitutions, especially if it is dietary or normal substitutions (many people use butter for margarine or margarine for butter). I like to know if it will work okay or if it messes up the recipe.
More than one substitution is not the recipe.
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Post by librarylady on Jul 4, 2017 23:54:20 GMT
LOL
I had a friend who would do that. It IS annoying.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2017 1:08:52 GMT
Growing up, my Mom made the most delicious & decadent chocolate cake she called Coke Cake. It has some of the soft drink in the icing. It was a pretty regular chocolate cake in a 9x13 pan, but the icing was so thick & rich, like a slab of fudge, really. My sister & I loved it & our kids did too. It was always requested for birthdays.
When Mom got older, I tried to make theCoke Cake. But for some reason the icing was never the same! I kept asking Mom why mine was thin & runny but she always swore she gave me the exact recipe she followed. Mom died 2 years ago without ever telling me the icing secret. I can only guess she doubled the recipe. We sure miss Mom & that Coke Cake.
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Post by Country Ham on Jul 5, 2017 1:15:31 GMT
It has always amazed me how two people can have the exact same recipe and not have it taste the same. I know several old ladies who make fried chicken. The all say the same thing. "I just dredge it in buttermilk, roll in flour and salt and pepper". Yet some is the best chicken ever, and others are awful.
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Post by jayfab on Jul 5, 2017 2:46:54 GMT
Ugh, that is so frustrating.
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Post by lucyg on Jul 5, 2017 5:23:56 GMT
I don't mind some of the substitutions, especially if it is dietary or normal substitutions (many people use butter for margarine or margarine for butter). I like to know if it will work okay or if it messes up the recipe. More than one substitution is not the recipe. I don't mind them subbing something and still reviewing the recipe. What I mind is when they make a bunch of substitutions or leave out something important, and then review it badly. Then I'll make the recipe just to spite them.  Or how about the people who don't even pretend they made the recipe, they just post (and review!) to say that their version is better? And then they give their recipe.  People are nuts. And I love to read recipe reviews. I might be nuts, too. |
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Post by burningfeather on Jul 5, 2017 5:41:20 GMT
My MIL did the same thing to a really good southwestern chicken soup recipe of mine. She made it for some of the family and I swear she cleaned out her fridge. It had green beans and bologna in it. Freaking BOLOGNA. My sister in law said she couldn't even gag it down and my MIL said "it's Carla's soup recipe." Fortunately my SIL defended my honor.
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Post by used2scrap on Jul 5, 2017 5:56:03 GMT
Lol, now she should go on allrecipes and criticize the recipe! This is one of my biggest pet peeves! People who negative review a recipe, but changed x,y, and z! Not the same recipe at all!!! |
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Post by MsKnit on Jul 5, 2017 6:09:54 GMT
It has always amazed me how two people can have the exact same recipe and not have it taste the same. I know several old ladies who make fried chicken. The all say the same thing. "I just dredge it in buttermilk, roll in flour and salt and pepper". Yet some is the best chicken ever, and others are awful. With fried chicken, I swear it has to do with the whatever it is being fried in. I can only imagine the little old ladies getting out the well seasoned cast iron. Mom makes the best sugar cookies. My SIL quit making them because they never turned out right for her. She always blamed mom for not giving the right recipe. Well, mine doesn't turn out right either. I was the one that copied the recipe. It's either the type of flour or the fact that her cream of tartar is ancient or, because it is hand mixed, something in her chemistry. She's not so petty that she would not share the real recipe. This is the same lady that complained that she made one of my recipes and it didn't turn out as good as mine. Then she says, 'But, I used jarred spaghetti sauce instead of going to all the trouble of making it from scratch. And, I used garlic powder instead of fresh garlic.' That's not going to change a thing. LOL! The worst was my SIL calling and bitching me out for ruinning her dinner party. She didn't use fresh garlic and then guessed at how much powdered to substitute in a recipe I shared. For many reasons, this among them, I no longer have anything to do with her. |
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Post by Grom Pea on Jul 5, 2017 6:14:39 GMT
Growing up, my Mom made the most delicious & decadent chocolate cake she called Coke Cake. It has some of the soft drink in the icing. It was a pretty regular chocolate cake in a 9x13 pan, but the icing was so thick & rich, like a slab of fudge, really. My sister & I loved it & our kids did too. It was always requested for birthdays. When Mom got older, I tried to make theCoke Cake. But for some reason the icing was never the same! I kept asking Mom why mine was thin & runny but she always swore she gave me the exact recipe she followed. Mom died 2 years ago without ever telling me the icing secret. I can only guess she doubled the recipe. We sure miss Mom & that Coke Cake. Maybe you should post the recipe and we can look at it and give you ideas. There are some cooking things that I think I take for granted, e.g. Chilling dough before baking that often people skip. Maybe her version has some steps that are implied or easily substituted, e.g. My mil gave me a recipe that said butter or margarine. I would have chosen butter except she put a note saying margarine in the cut cookies holds its shape better and the butter ones taste good but don't look good. I've also seen cookies at the state fair where people used the wrong kind of recipe for cut cookies so they get no detail, but it's a learned thing, versus a written out explicitly thing. perhaps someone can help with your coke frosting :-) |
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Post by Grom Pea on Jul 5, 2017 6:23:07 GMT
It has always amazed me how two people can have the exact same recipe and not have it taste the same. I know several old ladies who make fried chicken. The all say the same thing. "I just dredge it in buttermilk, roll in flour and salt and pepper". Yet some is the best chicken ever, and others are awful. With fried chicken, I swear it has to do with the whatever it is being fried in. I can only imagine the little old ladies getting out the well seasoned cast iron. Mom makes the best sugar cookies. My SIL quit making them because they never turned out right for her. She always blamed mom for not giving the right recipe. Well, mine doesn't turn out right either. I was the one that copied the recipe. It's either the type of flour or the fact that her cream of tartar is ancient or, because it is hand mixed, something in her chemistry. She's not so petty that she would not share the real recipe. This is the same lady that complained that she made one of my recipes and it didn't turn out as good as mine. Then she says, 'But, I used jarred spaghetti sauce instead of going to all the trouble of making it from scratch. And, I used garlic powder instead of fresh garlic.' That's not going to change a thing. LOL! The worst was my SIL calling and bitching me out for ruinning her dinner party. She didn't use fresh garlic and then guessed at how much powdered to substitute in a recipe I shared. For many reasons, this among them, I no longer have anything to do with her. I bet it's all of those things, I was posting at the same time as you, but my mil gave me her gingerbread recipe. The first batch tasted really bland but I had old ginger and it clumped. Now I sift the spices with the flour even though she specifically said she just dumps everything in. Also mine come out really moist and stay that way for days. I thought hers were dry because she mails them, but I think she just mixes them differently or something, e.g. I have a stand mixer and she might use a hand mixer. Or maybe she bakes hers a few minutes longer, there are so many variables, cookies ate forgiving but unless you do everything exactly the same they might taste different. My parents next door neighbor made the best chocolate chip cookies, she said they were just the those recipe, just like the one we used but hers were so much better. She know i loved them so when I got married she even mailed me a tin with a Christmas ornament :-) some people just have the magic touch! |
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Post by anniefb on Jul 5, 2017 6:23:41 GMT
LOL!
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Post by nicolep on Jul 5, 2017 14:50:42 GMT
Oh my, lol. I've seen this happen way too often and it is annoying for sure!
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Jul 5, 2017 15:35:55 GMT
I hate when do that! All of my recipes come from other sources (I don't make my own), so I have started adding the source to the bottom of any recipe before I share it. I'm not going to take the blame for them messing it up with their alterations! Now I sift the spices with the flour even though she specifically said she just dumps everything in. Also mine come out really moist and stay that way for days. I thought hers were dry because she mails them, but I think she just mixes them differently or something, e.g. I have a stand mixer and she might use a hand mixer. It's amazing how much of a difference even the order you add things to a recipe can change the outcome. I learned this with the batch of "ugly biscotti". Even though I've been making this recipe for 20 years, once I forgot to add the sugar until after I'd mixed in the eggs and vanilla. Rather than toss the batch I just dumped the sugar in and mixed it well before I added the almonds. The taste wasn't altered but the texture and appearance were not the same (I'd made a second batch the regular way). Everyone just called them the ugly biscotti and ate them anyway! I've also seen a difference in cake recipes that I used to mix with a hand mixer vs the stand mixer I use now. |
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Post by destined2bmom on Jul 5, 2017 16:02:35 GMT
😀 Did your mom tell her she couldn't figure out which soup of yours, she had made?
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Post by milocat on Jul 5, 2017 16:14:06 GMT
Like this artichoke dip that this newscaster used (I can't rewatch right now, going from memory) and it was her sister's recipe but she substituted everything. Yeah don't tell people this is your sister's famous recipe  www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQAauVu2sTg |
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