Shame. SHAAAME!
I told you! I told you to pay close attention to Rachel Ray-Gate! Now the mad cookbook-copier Cindy McCain has struck again, as this Parents Magazine web site testifies. It’s a humble little recipe for oatmeal butterscotch recipes – that, as Wonkette has found, just happens to have come from a corporate website.
To atone for this, Cindy fired a hapless intern. But the problem was systemic! Cindy has contributed another recipe, to Parents magazine. This recipe for Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies was, of course, directly cribbed from Hershey’s website.
Hey, a lot of us go to websites for our favorite recipes. Of course, we don’t usually try to pass them off as traditional family recipes – or if we do, we give a source for them. For instance, I have told people that my family recipe for pumpkin pie is the one on the Libby’s can “with a twist.” Or that my oatmeal cookies are the Quaker Oats recipe with all-fresh ingredients (fresh raisins – very important).
And, just wondering, is butterscotch the food of the common people?