"Joan and the Butterfly Dogs" <butterflydog@verizon.net> wrote:
>We had an Aunt who made the most phenomenal home made cherry strudel
>for the holidays. Mom could never get the dough recipe right.
>
>I remember my mother trying to replicate it dozens of times and it
>never came out the same. The aunt give bits and pieces of advice to
>mom on how to improve it but it was just never the correct recipe!
It's not necessarily the wrong recipe in some cases: My MIL made
beef stroganoff, and my husband said my version never tasted the same
as hers. I even stood and watched her make it and wrote down every
step and every ingredient. It still didn't taste the same. So I
started experimenting. One night I added double the sour cream and
more water and he said I'd done it!
For some reason I've never understood, 2 people can take the exact
same recipe and it will not come out the same. I have a knack for
bread .... others try my recipes and get bricks.
Lobo