On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:11:52 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2019-03-19 12:45 a.m., U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 21:13:11 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>
>>> I had when that happens. There was a called Judy' Bakery that had the
>>> best butter tarts I have ever tasted. I used to ride my bicycle down
>>> there, 4 km round trip, and figured I could reward myself by buying a
>>> package of them to bring home. Judy got sick and the place closed down.
>>> After a couple weeks he daughter daughter took over running it. She had
>>> most of the the products that Judy have made, but not the butter tarts.
>>> Her mother would not give her the recipe. Judy recovered a bit and they
>>> had butter tarts again. It didn't last long. She relapsed and died,
>>> taking her recipe with her. Since they were one of the biggest sellers
>>> in the bakery it just didn't survive without them.
>>>
>> That's awful that the recipe and method is lost forever. Signature
>> items just aren't easy to replicate.
>
>The especially bad bad part in this case was that the tarts were
>exceptional. There are lots of places that claim to make the best butter
>tarts, but none of them compared to Judy's. One friend was raving about
>a place she knows and brought some for us to try. They were about three
>times the price and they were nowhere near as good.

when I watch a program like Diners, Drive-ins and Dives and we're back
in the kitchen with the chef assembling his signature sauce or 3-step
cooking method for something, I realize why it is practically
impossible to duplicate an item from a restaurant or bakery. There's
a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes.
Janet US