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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In cookbook publishing, the rule used to be change three ingredients. This sounds like you're changing proportions, and trading off some white flour for whole flour. So, it's not technically a new recipe, it's a modified one. That said, who are you giving these details to? I've modified an oatmeal cookie recipe, the one on the Quaker Oats box, inspired by several recipes I saw online but this version is mine in that it's combines the best of several with a few twists. Technically I could call it my own because I've changed or added four ingredients. But I tell people who ask it's a riff on the box recipe. I think it can come off as pretentious to claim to have developed a recipe.[/quote]

OP here.  So by change three ingredients do you mean add/take away three ingredients, not change amounts?

Yes, I do give credit to the original recipe.  I guess I wonder how some recipes can claim to be original.  Chocolate chip cookies, for example, have basically the same ingredients with very little changes.[/quote]

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