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My attempt at my great-grandma's bread recipe was a sticky mess
I found my great-grandma's handwritten bread recipe in a box. When I tried it, the dough was too wet and stuck to everything. Do old recipes often need adjustments, or am I doing something wrong?
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king.lisa6mo ago
You probably just messed up the measurements.
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iris_ellis6mo ago
Old recipes can be so tricky with those vague instructions. Martinez.anthony's story about the pie crust is a perfect example of why you can't always trust them word for word. What kind of recipe were you even trying to follow, was it one of those handwritten ones from a relative? Sometimes the problem isn't the cook, it's the recipe itself being from a totally different time.
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martinez.anthony6mo ago
Oh, that's so familiar! My friend Jake dug up his great-aunt's pie crust recipe last year. He followed it exactly and ended up with soup in a bowl. Turns out, back in the day, they used a different kind of flour that soaked up more liquid. He had to add almost a whole extra cup of flour to get it to come together. Old recipes are like that sometimes, you gotta treat them as a starting point and adjust by feel.
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