It certainly seems to be accepted that *recipes* as such can't be
copyrighted, only the written expressions of them. Even if you did
come up with a new recipe (how about my Davidson plum jam on a mealy
muffin fried in whale blubber?) you could only copyright the literary
form in which you express it (which is why I'm keeping it secret 8-).

Cheers, Phred.


That's right, you can only copyright the accompanying text, and the
compilation thereof, NOT the actual recipes.

And I've made fried muffins topped with all sorts of jams, I'm sure
plum included... go to any Dunkin Donut joint and see people scoffing
em, they even have special uniforms to wear for the purpose and those
fanatics wear weapons, they'll shoot you for even looking at their
fried dough... they realize how intolerant they are, is why they keep
to themselves 'round back sitting in their strangely painted vehicles.
I used to fry those toast-r corn muffins in bacon blubber. But then
zillions of people have fried blobs of dough/batter in all its
variations containing all manner ingredients... I happen to like corn
batter conch fritters with tabasco jelly.

http://www.tabasco.com/taste_tent/co...lly_recipe.cfm

Last night to accompany my pasta dinner I prepared a bowlful of anchovy
zepole... fried in corn blubber... tried em dipped in tomato sauce
(tomato jam?) but they were better a ju... didja ever have zepole
prepared with tinned flat anchovy fillets minced and stired into the
batter... very yummy... I bet not, but I bet I'm far from the first.
Next time I'll make em with saw-seech n' onyons.

Sheldon