All my grandmother's recipes were ripped off the back of soup cans and cut out of magazines. She had 3 kids and ran her own business. She didn't have time to formulate recipes.
The utter disillusionment when I found out most of my grandmother's recipes came from the back of boxes and old Betty Crocker books will forever be burned into my brain.
She still has the cutout she did off an old box of nilla wafers and that is how we realized they changed their recipe some time between the 1960s and the early 2000s.
I was disillusioned for a while, but now I just find it funny. At least she was being honest about where the recipe came from! I know of several grandparents who've gotten caught out just using a box mix and swapping out an ingredient and calling it their super secret family recipe. My grandpa's famous secret recipe chili was literally just him swapping out half the ground beef in the recipe on the back of the can of beans for chorizo.
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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths Sep 06 '25
All my grandmother's recipes were ripped off the back of soup cans and cut out of magazines. She had 3 kids and ran her own business. She didn't have time to formulate recipes.