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The whole 'grandma's recipe is perfect' thing bothers me
Everyone says to never change a family recipe, but my grandma's biscuit recipe had too much salt. I cut it down by a quarter teaspoon after three tries and now they actually taste like biscuits instead of crackers. Am I the only one who tweaks old recipes to make them edible?
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ryantorres1mo ago
Honestly grandma was probably just heavy handed with the shaker. People act like changing a recipe is disrespectful but that's how food actually gets better over time. A quarter teaspoon of salt is nothing to get precious about, especially when it turns hardtack into actual biscuits.
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olivia3981mo ago
Honestly, tweaking old recipes is basically keeping them alive instead of just memorizing them. Your grandma probably changed things herself over the years too, nobody's born knowing the perfect salt amount. Ngl, a quarter teaspoon difference can save a whole batch, so good on you for fixing it.
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drewgonzalez29d ago
Three generations of family cooks probably changed that salt amount before your grandma even got the recipe. Most of those "perfect" handwritten recipes were just whatever they remembered that day, not some sacred text. You're fine tweaking it, just don't act like you're saving civilization by adjusting a quarter teaspoon of salt.
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