Cooking Submitting another's recipe to a cookbook?

[Coll0610]

I gave a cookie recipe to someone a couple years ago. Today, I got a message from her saying that she had submitted it to a cookbook for her civic club but they didn't print it. She apparently sent them her only copy of it because she wants me to give it to her again.

I'm a little annoyed that she never asked if I minded if she submitted it. Am I being too sensitive? I didn't tell her not to share it and it's not some super family secret or anything, but I would have thought she would ask first. What do you think?

 

[piratesmate]

That's not something I've ever given much thought to. That's probably largely because I don't tend to follow recipes exactly - so they kind of "become mine"...as in tweaked. Everyone I know pretty much shares recipes without concern for where they originated. Since joining the DIS though, I've gotten much better about noting the sources.

In my experience, when the school or church has asked for recipes because they want to make cookbooks to sell, people pretty much just given them their "favorites". That's usually how the request is made around here: "share your family favorites" I've never seen anything about "original recipes only"...I'd think they'd get very few that way.

All that changes if this is a recipe you developed & she knew that, but otherwise I wouldn't have asked for permission before sharing. Except...I'd have asked if you were contributing the recipe if we both belonged to the same group - just to be sure we didn't both submit it.

All that to say that I wouldn't say you were too sensitive. You're entitled to your feelings. But not everyone thinks the same way & maybe it just never occurred to her that this would be an issue for you. KWIM? I'm sorry your feelings were hurt.

 

[GypsySue]

Well, it may be a little on the petty side, but if it was my original recipe and not one I scoffed from another source--yeah I would be irked. If I thought up and wrote the recipe and then she submitted it for publication as her own, I consider it plagerism. But it's only cookie.

 

[Alison Wonderland]

I would just be glad that she thought it was good enough
to submit. And to ask for another copy. Because it doesn't look
like she was trying to make a personal profit from it.

 

[Master Mason]

I would say if you didn't want her to share it, you should have told her that when you gave it to her. If someone gives me a recipie and doesn't tell me that they don't want it shared, then I believe it is fine to share.

I have only a couple of recipies that I hold close, and the few times I have given them out, I have told the person, that if someone else wants the recipie, then they should send them to me to ask.