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Not only that, but the recipes themselves are often poor quality. A few years ago, I was looking for recipes for banketstaaf, a Dutch almond pastry usually made around Christmas. I found half a dozen copies of the exact same recipe. Sometimes with unit differences or scaling everything up/down, but the exact same recipe. And that recipe didn't even work, as it resulted in an extremely runny filling.

It ended up taking half a dozen attempts to vary the recipe before I got it right, but it was rather frustrating at the start.