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My aunt said my great-grandma's gingerbread was too dry, so I tried something new
I made the old family recipe for my aunt last month. She took one bite and said, 'Honey, this is the texture of sawdust, just like hers always was.' I looked back at the card and saw it called for a full cup of milk. I swapped that for a half cup of milk and a half cup of applesauce. The next batch was so much softer and kept for days. Has anyone else fixed a dry old recipe like that?
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leer125mo ago
Sometimes the recipe was right but the tools were wrong. My grandma's cake was always dry until I realized her oven ran way hotter than mine. Those old stoves could really change how a recipe turned out.
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jamesrivera4mo ago
Funny you mention that because I've been thinking about how humidity plays into old recipes too. My aunt's pie crust recipe never worked for me until I moved from the coast to a drier area, turns out she was working with wetter air naturally. Same recipe, same tools, just the damn weather around you can throw everything off.
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wells.amy5mo ago
Noticed this happens a lot with old recipes. People back then just wrote things down wrong or had different ingredients. Always makes me wonder what other family classics are actually mistakes.
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