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So...what's the "final" rule for editing a recipe?
Change three+ ingredients and it's considered your own?
Changing the measurements and it's considered your own?
I know it's been discussed, many times, before.
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Re: So...what's the "final" rule for editing a recipe?
Personally, I don't feel like either of those things constitute the right to declare the recipe as your own. If you're using and changing a recipe, you're still, at the very least, adapting the recipe - but it still isn't "your own."
Frankly, bloggers who do either or both of what you mentioned annoy me and I refuse to use their recipes or visit their sites.
I agree with that. If you based "your" recipe specifically on one recipe, even if you changed it a bunch, then you should site it. Even if it is just in the narrative in the beginning, as in: this is the recipe I started with.
When I made my Mac N Cheese soup, it came form an idea from a picture I saw on Food Gawker about making healthy mac n cheese using butternut squash. Even though I didn't visit her site until I was writing up the post, I still mentioned that she was what had given me the idea and linked to her blog. Just because that was were I got the idea from.
Thanks guys!
I appreciate your feedback.
I feel like it's a little easier to create your own recipe when cooking but not really when baking. What's your opinion?
I know there are nesties who make and sell their baked goods...do you know who they are? I'd love to contact them and get more info. Like I said previously, I'm doing research for starting my own cupcake business and have reservations about using recipes that aren't my own creation.
Well, there's the moral answer and the legal one.
As far as legality, you cannot copyright a list of ingredients. So if I take your list and use it, but change the written instructions and/or do things in a different order, etc. then there's no legal issue.
Whether or not that is morally questionable with an original recipe is something you have to decide for yourself.
Even if I've changed stuff, I cite as "adapted from ______" and often with "via ______." By the change three rule, you could take a muffin recipe and sub RF milk for whole, add more cinnamon and leave out the nutmeg and call it yours. I'm not buying it.
For the most part, bloggers aren't being paid to come up with and test original recipes. Even some that do, like Smitten Kitchen and Homesick Texan, still cite their sources and inspirations, both on their websites, and in the case of HT, in their cookbooks. So I really don't get why people get so weird about giving proper credit where it's due.
I do the same as with literature: when in doubt, cite.
Changing 3+ doesn't always change the nature of the dish (but sometimes changing 1 or 2 does) so that rule isn't any good, imo.
If I am in doubt, I just link to the original (or one of many) and say that I changed where I did and leave it at that. What do you ever lose by citing?!
I sell granola that I bake. Feel free to PM me.
You're free to sell any cupcake flavor that you want, no matter where the recipe comes from, as far as I know. Writing up that recipe and putting it on your blog is a different matter.