Post by Eλευθερί on Sept 10, 2019 3:02:28 GMT
Have you ever made a dish from a published recipe, only to realize after the fact that whoever published it was a fraud and could not possibly have actually followed the instructions in the recipe to produce the dish that they claimed to have made?
I bookmarked a cake recipe that caught my eye a couple of years back from a recipes-oriented blog. When I went to pull up the recipe today, it was no longer available on the blog, which is ongoing, but I was able to pull the recipe up from an internet archive.
Looking at the recipe before preparing the cake, it immediately struck me that it was extremely similar to a common recipe for a completely different kind of cake (since I had just baked that other kind of cake several times recently). Except that other kind of cake (a pound cake) is typically prepared in a flute pan and takes over an hour to bake, whereas this recipe I was about to make was to be prepared in layer-cake pans and supposedly would only need 25 minutes, or so. Also, she listed a crucial ingredient but then never mentioned actually when (or if) to add that ingredient into the mix.
What really grinds my gears about this one is that the pictures published showing how this cake supposedly turned out for the blogger did not look anything like what a cake following this kind of recipe generally should look like.
So the cake turned out as I expected it would based on the recipe, and different from what the blogger implied could be expected based on her descriptions of it and the pictures.
Complete waste of time and ingredients.
I bookmarked a cake recipe that caught my eye a couple of years back from a recipes-oriented blog. When I went to pull up the recipe today, it was no longer available on the blog, which is ongoing, but I was able to pull the recipe up from an internet archive.
Looking at the recipe before preparing the cake, it immediately struck me that it was extremely similar to a common recipe for a completely different kind of cake (since I had just baked that other kind of cake several times recently). Except that other kind of cake (a pound cake) is typically prepared in a flute pan and takes over an hour to bake, whereas this recipe I was about to make was to be prepared in layer-cake pans and supposedly would only need 25 minutes, or so. Also, she listed a crucial ingredient but then never mentioned actually when (or if) to add that ingredient into the mix.
What really grinds my gears about this one is that the pictures published showing how this cake supposedly turned out for the blogger did not look anything like what a cake following this kind of recipe generally should look like.
So the cake turned out as I expected it would based on the recipe, and different from what the blogger implied could be expected based on her descriptions of it and the pictures.
Complete waste of time and ingredients.
