Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
> "Sheldon" >, if that's their real name, wrote:
>
> >Sheldon (who often omits mentioning his secret ingredients and
> >procedures, which is why after eating my food you wonder why even
with
> >my giving you the recipe you can't replicate it exactly)
>
> You didn't do that with the RFC cookbook, did you?

Not those. But then no one follows those exactly anyhow, proven by all
who have reported back saying they didn't do this, that, or the other,
and still it came out great... that's the mark of a great recipe, it
only requires replication (close approximation, as an echo), not
duplication (copied precisely).

Sheldon