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My mom swore this cornbread recipe was from her grandma and it turned out to be from a 1980s cookbook
I made my mom's cornbread for a family reunion last month and my aunt laughed at me. Said she knew the recipe because it came straight from a Betty Crocker cookbook from 1984. I was so sure this was passed down from great grandma because Mom always said it was 'Granny's special cornbread.' I asked her about it and she finally admitted she clipped it from a magazine but added an extra egg and some honey. It still tastes great honestly. I mean does it even matter where it came from if it's good? Has anyone else found out a 'family recipe' wasn't actually that old?
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richard_west52d ago
Ha, I'm going to go the other way on this one honestly. I think it does actually matter, at least a little bit. Like yeah the cornbread tastes fine, but the whole point of a family recipe is supposed to be the story and the tradition behind it, not just the flavor. Your mom basically made up a whole fake history for that cornbread, and that's kind of a weird thing to do. If she had just said "hey I tweaked a recipe I found and it's become our thing" that would be one thing, but she straight up lied about it for years. I mean idk, maybe I'm being too harsh but I'd be pretty annoyed if I found out my grandma's "secret" recipe was just something from a 1980s magazine with an extra egg thrown in. It feels like it cheapens the whole idea of cooking and passing things down, you know?
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