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My aunt said my great-grandma's gingerbread was too hard to chew
I made the recipe exactly as written, using the old molasses tin from her pantry. She tried a piece and told me straight up, 'Honey, this could break a tooth.' I looked back at the notes and saw it called for baking soda but no liquid besides the molasses. I tried adding 2 tablespoons of warm water to the mix last time and it came out soft, just like she remembered. Has anyone else had to fix a dry old recipe like this?
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samf954mo ago
Yeah, the "play around with the liquids" thing is dead on. I had to do the same with my granddad's cornbread recipe, it was basically a brick until I swapped out half the buttermilk for regular milk. You just have to trust what the dough looks like over the written notes sometimes.
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harperjackson6mo ago
That's a really good point about the biscuits. Sometimes those old recipes were written for ingredients that acted differently, like lard or a specific brand of flour. My grandma's cookie dough always needed a bit more egg than the card said because her chickens laid smaller eggs. You kinda have to play around with the liquids until the dough looks and feels right.
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harperjackson6mo ago
Oh man, my buddy had the same thing happen with his grandpa's biscuit recipe. He added a splash of milk and it totally fixed it.
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