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Recipes, particularly chocolate cake recipes, are a sweet kind of social glue, writes Leanne Tolra. CHOCOLATE cake recipe is only as good as the last person who baked it. Have you ever tasted a dud and then wanted the recipe? If you asked for it, it...
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Recipes, particularly chocolate cake recipes, are a sweet kind of social glue, writes Leanne Tolra. CHOCOLATE cake recipe is only as good as the last person who baked it. Have you ever tasted a dud and then wanted the recipe? If you asked for it, it was probably out of politeness. It's unlikely you baked it to see if you could do a better job. But a well-cooked chocolate cake is one of those recipes people always request, either continuing a chain of sharing, or creating a new one. Recipe books often begin the chain, but such origins are quickly lost as the recipe is handed from friend to friend or colleague to colleague and takes on a new guise, with the credit usually going to the person who baked it last. My friend Sue Gore makes a chocolate cake to a recipe from her friend Simone Boileau. Sue and Simone met when their children were babies, and each member of their "mothers' group" has been given a copy of "Aunty Pam's" chocolate cake. "Aunty Pam was a Colac girl," says Simone. "She... See less 
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