Southern Living issued a safety notice regarding a recipe in the April issue. The original version of the recipe apparently includes an instruction to heat shortnin’ and water in a dangerous way. Safe version of the recipe is here and will be in the May issue.
So, what are libraries that get the magazine doing with p. 154? Where I work, the page was ripped out; I just inserted the notice and corrected recipe.
Interesting approach
Everyone keeps saying that the benefit of text based resources is that they never change. I guess you just proved them all wrong.
And what about future researchers who want to analyze recipies to see which were dangerous? Or those “don’t tell me, show me” Gen-Next learners I keep hearing about who need to test for themselves if a reciepe is dangerous…
library responsibility for accurate information?
The usual mantra for dealing with material that’s inaccurate due to ideological biases is to “let them read it.” If this recipe should be treated differently as a matter of public safety, should libraries correct the bomb-making recipes in the Anarchist’s Cookbook so that the reader can blow up other people instead of themselves?
Re:Interesting approach
If it had been up to me, I would have left the page in and stapled the notice and “safe version” on top of it. I’m inclined to think of the original recipe as an artifact of potential interest to researchers — say, a college student writing a paper on corrections in print media. But we only keep the mag for 2 years, so it’s not an archival issue for us.
I can also see completely replacing the recipe as akin to using the stickers we sometimes get from book publishers to paste over errors.
BTW, when I originally heard about Southern Living’s warning, I was mistakenly given the impression that the biscuits would explode in the oven or something. I was disappointed to find out that the potential safety hazard is much less exciting, and probably wouldn’t even deliver the pyrotechnic satisfaction of Dave Barry’s strawberry Pop-Tart experiment.
Re:Interesting approach
I am so curious about what this dangerous method of heating shortening was. Would you feel unethical telling me?
flamethrowers and crisco
never a good thing.
southern living correction for real
Safe recipe for icebox rolls. Apparently, the original recipe had some instructions for heating water and shortening together. Doh! Maybe it’s something Iron Chef can get away with, but not those of us without Kitchen Stadiums.