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My dad told me 'never trust a recipe that calls for margarine' and I laughed until my butter-free birthday cake collapsed into a sad puddle last week.
He was 100% right, the whole thing turned into a greasy mess and now I'm wondering what other cooking advice from the 1970s I should actually listen to, has anyone else been burned by old-school kitchen wisdom like that?
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fiona_clark15d ago
Well, I had a friend who tried to make her grandmother's famous pound cake using that old trick of "adding an extra egg for moisture" and it came out more like a dense, rubbery frisbee than anything edible. Really makes you wonder which of those old tips are actually gold and which ones are just sitting there waiting to ruin your dinner.
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jasonc5015d ago
That extra egg thing always sounded smart until you said this.
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