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Originally Posted by koland
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Hopefully the comments on bad recipes reflect some bad proof-editing, rather than the alleged use of untried recipes. Reminds me of the split-pea soup recipe we tried that mentioned adding water if the soup was too thick ... but it already had perhaps 2 cups more liquid than it should have, as it made a very, very thin soup after it was pureed. Comparing to other recipes, later, it was obvious that either less liquid or more peas should have been called for.
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About 20 years ago, maybe as few as 15,
Consumer Reports did a study of cookbooks to see what percentage of their recipes had errors in them of some kind (wrong quantities, missing ingredients, etc.). I wish that I could remember the result, but I can't (at the time I had no idea that I would be posting cookbooks on an Internet forum as a hobby. ha). But I do remember that the percentage of recipes that had errors was
huge. I doubt that things have changed much since then, unless they have changed for the worse.
Maybe one day when I'm in the library, I can look up what year and issue of the magazine had that information. Of course, then the problem is trying to find a copy of an issue that old. Most information in
Consumer Reports becomes dated very quickly and libraries (and people) do not keep issues from very far back in time. Worth a try anyway.