I have a couple of recipes passed down from the Spanish grannies. As one of my cousins saya, pain in the a$$ but so worth it.
You doing it wrong.
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I have several recipes that have been handed down on both sides of my family. The most difficult one to get right has been my mother-in-law’s meatloaf recipe, which took me roughly 30 years to get the right texture and consistency. No wonder. Her instructions call for “a good bit” of certain ingredients. I had to watch her make it a few times and write down what she was doing so I could attempt it. My son calls this technique “cooking with your eyes”.