Worst 'written' recipe

[nishka]

Hi all,
I have a job interview coming up for an English Communications position. I have worked as a sous-chef for years prior to this and come across some terribly written recipes. In my interview I want to show how if something is written badly, a recipe can be thrown completely off.

SO, does anyone have any recipes they have recently tried to use (preferably for a baked good as this will be easier to transport and distribute to a committee) which was so badly written that, were you to have followed it exactly, your end product would have been far from perfect (really crusty, over cooked, too much of one ingredient, &c.)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[johnnyreno13]

a recipe can yield a fine dish, while limiting the development of a cook's talent and good sense. No problem until the stays -- or words in a recipe -- give way.

Recipe dependants tend to blame themselves rather than the recipe when dinner is for the dogs, though often they are guilty only of possessing trusting hearts and literal minds.

Cooks who worked with the late James Beard remember one of the master's typing errors. He used one jalapeno pepper to cook a simple little chicken something, but when the recipe appeared in print, the text called for 11 peppers.

And then there was the sweet/savoury shuffle in the first edition of "Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables: A Common sense Guide" (Harper & Row, 1986). The author, Elizabeth Schneider, is known for precision and clarity, but between her typewriter and the printing press, "pears" became "peas."