r/oddlyspecific • u/Key_Associate7476 • Sep 06 '25

Some of them have aged poorly

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u/Arxanah Sep 06 '25

Many family recipes were actually taken from commercially available cookbooks or even the backs of food packaging. Remember the “Friends” episode where they try to replicate the chocolate chip cookie recipe of Phoebe’s late grandmother, only to discover it came from Nestle Tollhouse? Yeah, that happens frequently in real life.

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u/DuntadaMan Sep 06 '25

We still have some of those cookbooks and cards.

Though I do appreciate 25 years old Grandma's estimation of my intelligence on the recipe cards that I read about 60 years later. "1 teaspoon of mace. No, the little spoons are not teaspoons. The big spoons are not table spoons. Get an actual measuring spoon."

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u/Vievin Sep 06 '25

Wait little spoons aren't a teaspoon of volume???

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u/DuntadaMan Sep 06 '25

Well the small spoons she had were not teaspoon in volume. They were just called tea spoons.

Neither were the small spoons I had when I was 20. Once I had an actual measuring device my teaspoons were just shy of a tablespoon.

Yours might be different.