What is the definition of a standard recipe?

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Cooking is a science and what happens to the food you cook depends on chemical reactions. You're not manufacturing pills, so quantities of ingredients almost never need to be exact unless you're working with cakes and similar products.

A standard recipe can vary from kitchen to kitchen; if you want to know the standard recipe for Bolognese sauce, visit every kitchen in Bologna and come home with hundreds of 'standard' recipes.

Few of these recipes, of course, take into account the days before tomatoes arrived in Europe, back when meat sauces were devised as methods of disguising already unidentifiable animal parts left over from the big roast. This is still the case in many parts of the world.

What I'm trying to say is, unless you're cooking a sponge cake or something similar requiring meticulous measuring, there is no standard recipe.

Find a good basic recipe and learn to cook it, closely observing the principles behind the process, and then change it until it becomes your very own standard recipe. There are no rules, except for learning the craft before you mess about with it.

Following the instructions of celebrity chefs who dictate the rules will frequently lead to culinary failure because they don't always explain the principles behind the process, and an understanding of these principles is the key to great - and easy -cooking.

Learn how it works and then trust your own judgement. Believe me, you'll never wonder what a standard recipe is ever again, because you'll know there's no such thing.

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