Finding The Origins Of Recipes - Sometimes Recipe Research Is Flawed Guesswork

Finding The Origins Of Recipes - Sometimes Recipe Research Is Flawed Guesswork
Today on the Old Cookbook Show we're taking a look at how I tried to find the origins of a recipe that we recently looked at from 1967 for 'Hamburger Pancakes' https://youtu.be/3QgP5m5Zg4w
One of the biggest challenges for researching recipe in early (or contemporary) cookbooks from Canada and the United States is getting the recipe titles 'right'. There is a huge variation in recipe titles both regionally and through time. Often a recipe title in a book is a little bit like playing broken telephone, as they are written phonetically in misheard translations from languages other than English. Another hurdle is that sometimes the recipes are just a vague representation of what the 'original' recipe was. The recipes we're talking about today all look like a case of misinterpretation, the titles are close but not quite right and the ingredients follow a pattern... but don't hit the mark.



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