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My cousin insisted her banana bread was a secret family recipe for 12 years
She finally admitted at Thanksgiving she just copied it off a Nestle Toll House bag in 2011, so has anyone else had a relative lie about where a recipe came from?
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amy9754mo ago
Oh wait hold on, I have to say something about this. I actually looked up that recipe once and the Nestle Toll House bag doesn't even have banana bread on it. It has the chocolate chip cookie recipe on the back but not banana bread. So your cousin might have been lying about where she copied it from too, or she got it from a different bag. I remember seeing a banana bread recipe on the back of a chocolate chip bag maybe ten years ago but it was from a different brand, not Nestle. Anyway, it's funny how people get so protective over recipes that aren't even theirs. My aunt used to claim her potato salad was "passed down from Grandma" but we found the actual recipe card in my grandma's handwriting and it said "from the back of the Hellmann's jar" right on it. So yeah, this happens way more than people want to admit.
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harper_wright4mo ago
Four people in that thread are treating this like a crime scene investigation. It's a banana bread recipe, not a kidnapping. Who cares where your cousin got it? If the bread tastes good, what does it matter if she copied it off a bag or the back of a toilet paper roll? People act like every family recipe needs a sworn affidavit. Your aunt's potato salad story is funny but it just proves my point. We all eat the same 20 ingredients in slightly different orders. Can we move on to something that actually matters?
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