Subj : Allrecipes, America's Most Unruly Cooking Web Site       [4]
To   : Ben Collver
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Wed Oct 02 2024 12:22:32

Hi Ben,

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 BC> But it quickly became obvious that the best approach was to let the
 BC> cooks be the judge: it's the reviews, even more than the recipes,
 BC> that make the site. Look at its all-time top recipes today--Good
 BC> Old-Fashioned Pancakes, Easy Meatloaf, Taco Seasoning, To Die For
 BC> Blueberry Muffins--all vetted by tens of thousands of home cooks, and
 BC> all uploaded in Allrecipes' golden age, between 1998 and 2002, when

Just a quick note--I've used Allrecipies from time to time, latest being
a search for what to do with all the figs we were getting in
July/August. I printed off about 4 recipies, tried two of them. The
fresh fig bread was great, a keeper for us. OTOH, the fig scones were a
flop--ended up very runny, baking up sort of like flat cookies. That
recipe went into the paper recycle bag.

Some years ago, probably close to 15 now, I couldn't find my recipe for
sour cream (I used plain yogurt) pound cake. I went to Allrecipies,
found one for lemon pound cake. I printed that off, made several tweaks
to it and we loved it. I took it to our church's dessert auction for
several years, often selling to one man in the $50. range. He was outbid
at the last minute one year by someone else; we all had a good laugh
over that.  I'll have to hunt up the recipe and post it here.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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