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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is everyone jumping down OP’s throat? Changing a recipe isn’t blasphemy. People alter recipes all the time, how do you think people come up with new recipes for new foods? [/quote]

It’s not that you can’t change recipes. Especially in baking, you have to know what you’re doing, or you’ll end up with a fail. So the most straightforward/correct answer to OP’s question is ‘Because you altered the recipe’. [/quote]

I think OP is very aware that they didn’t follow the recipe and had a bad outcome. Their question is why the alteration caused the outcome. And shrieking that changing a recipe is a deed never to be done is just ridiculous. I bake all the time and I alter recipes all the time. I live at 8000 feet, so I am always adjusting something. Sometimes I don’t have eggs. Sometimes I don’t have ingredient x, y, or z. Sometimes I imagine that it would taste better with a instead of b. Sometimes I don’t have the right dimension pan. Sometimes I want a lighter crumb, or a denser filling, or a crisper texture. Keep experimenting, OP. [/quote]

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