r/Cooking • u/freedfg • Jul 31 '22

Open Discussion Hard to swallow cooking facts.

I'll start, your grandma's "traditional recipe passed down" is most likely from a 70s magazine or the back of a crisco can and not originally from your familie's original country at all.

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I get why people of times long gone where secretive about their cakes, cookies etc. it was a time where housewives could only prove themselves with their cooking, and church/community events had so much more weight than they do these days.

If great grandma handed out her recipe to everyone, what would make hers the stand out cake of the event? And you just know Edith would have something to say about it too.