Do you know someone who is protective of their recipes?

yes. my ex-husband. after all that my mom has done for him he still wont give me his bbq chicken thigh recipe lol (she still asks me for it)

I have a cousin who won't share our grandmother's recipes.

Yeah, me. 🤷🏻

Yes, my own mother was worse than that. She would GIVE her recipes to anyone who asked, and then leave stuff OUT of the recipe.

My grandmother had a notebook full of her lovely old spidery writing of recipes she cooked for me as a child. My mum largely left her to bring me up and she taught me to cook. Mum hated cooking and only heated cans of beans or soup when she had to. When my grandmother died I asked for the notebook and mum had spitefully thrown it away. I was really upset, but since then have managed to find a lot of the receipes and make them almost as good as Grandmother did.

I think that is not it, my aunt just improvises or does it by eye and never gets exact measurements or remembers what exactly she used and in what order. 😆

A recipe never shared doesn't pass to the next generation.

She feels she will lose the respect that comes with it. It happens, so people are protective of the respect, love, and affection that come with it rather than the whole recipe.

Dumb