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Long-running dispute

Lasagne Dispute Enters Third Generation

Family members remain unable to agree on whether the original contained wine.

What RecipeJam does about it

A recipe can hold more than one legitimate version. Keep the original as it was written, add your variation beside it, and let the notes record who changed what and why — without either side having to win.

RecipeJam, in use

A recording of this, in the real application

Taking a copy of the original, adjusting it, and keeping both with their notes.

Filmed in RecipeJam itself, not an animation. Coming shortly.

Recipes are allowed to change

Most family recipes are a record of somebody adjusting something. Copy a recipe, adjust it, and the two sit alongside each other rather than one overwriting the other.

Notes carry the argument

Where it came from, what was changed, what somebody insists it should be. The context that usually lives in a phone call stays with the recipe.

Nothing is quietly rewritten

Your ingredient lines are stored exactly as you typed them. RecipeJam keeps its own reading of them alongside for searching, and never replaces your wording with a tidier version.

We are not going to settle it either.

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