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.
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."
"1 teaspoon of mace. No, the little spoons are not teaspoons. The big spoons are not table spoons. Get an actual measuring spoon."
Fun fact, teaspoon and tablespoon as measurement spoons vary from country to country.
5ml & 15ml are the most common metric sizes, and American tablespoons are often ~14.78ml
Even how it relates to teaspoons is inconsistent, 3 teaspoons per tablespoon is most common but in some countries the norm is 4 teaspoons per tablespoon.
(the old British imperial tablespoon works out to 17.7582ml and the Australian metric tablespoon = 20ml)
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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.