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Default How often do you have to tweak recipes?



"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
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> On Thu 02 Jan 2014 08:47:44a, Ophelia told us...
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>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>>> On 1/2/2014 12:58 AM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>> On Tue 31 Dec 2013 05:13:52a, Julie Bove told us...
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>>>>> And by tweak, I don't mean changing them to use what you happen
>>>>> to have or leaving out or swapping things that your family
>>>>> would prefer. I mean making the recipe, tasting it, then
>>>>> having to add things to it to make it edible!
>>>>>
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>>>> Edible? No. If the recipe is that bad, I wouldn't use it.
>>>> There are plenty of others. Having said that, I often tweak a
>>>> recipe to enhance the flavor, texture, etc.
>>>>
>>> My feeling exactly, Wayne.

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>> So would you throw it away without trying to rescue it? Even if
>> you had spent time and money to make it?

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> I can interpret recipes well enough to know whether I should bother
> with making it or not. So, no, I wouldn't have made it in the first
> place and there would be nothing to rescue. :-)


Of course as would I, but not everyone can.

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