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And how was the recipe followed prior to its existence?

• Smaug123 7y ago
  Before the existence of the recipe, skilled practitioners had their own folklore, built from decades or centuries of trial and error and experience. Now, anybody can simply copy a recipe and inherit that experience, no matter how skilled. It takes skill and/or time and effort to discover a recipe in a field like baking, where the desired chemical reactions are fragile and easy to disrupt. The message of the post is: don't try and discover recipes in difficult fields like baking, unless you know what you're doing.
  • phyzome 7y ago
    > don't try and discover recipes in difficult fields like baking, unless you know what you're doing. Or unless failure is an option! (And ideally, you're at least writing down what you did.)
  • smitty1e 7y ago
    My point is that there is a chicken/egg problem here, irrespective of the use of egg products in the recipe.
• goto11 7y ago
  You mean before it was written down? Old recipes were transmitted orally from generation to generation and from master to apprentice. If you mean how the the recipe was originally developed, this happened (and still happens) through trial and error. But if you know how the ingredients actually work and interact, you can experiment a lot safer. Of course trial and error is perfectly fine as long as you are prepared to accept "error" as a potential outcome.