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My great aunt's 'secret ingredient' cost me $22 and a whole afternoon.
She wrote 'a dash of mace' in her apple pie recipe, and I spent hours driving to three stores to find the spice, only to learn from my mom that she just meant a pinch of nutmeg. Do you think we should update old recipes with clearer terms, or is hunting down the real thing part of the tradition?
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willow24414d ago
Honestly this happens with so much old family stuff, not just recipes. My grandma's sewing patterns use terms nobody gets anymore, and her house cleaning tips assume you have products from like 1955. It's like a little puzzle you have to solve, which is kinda fun until you're driving all over town. Part of me wants to just update everything so it makes sense now, but then you lose that weird connection to how they actually lived.
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