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Original Recipe: What does that mean?

MarkIsCooking

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I'm looking to tap into that eGullet braintrust on this one.

Is there such a thing as a definition for "Original Recipe"? By this I mean, if you're entering a contest or want to call a recipe 'your own', what does it take? Must you dream it up in your head, play with proportions again and again to hone and then - tada! - there is your original recipe?

If you take pieces of various recipes (one person's cake recipe plus another person's food mixture) and combine them in a different way - is that an 'original' recipe?

For those of you who have entered contests, how does it usually work?

For those who have written cookbooks, how does that usually work?

Thanks for your help!

-Mark-

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