When picking out a recipe online, via friends and family, or in any soon-to-be-extinct hard copy cookbook, make sure you trust your intuition. If something looks off in the recipe, it probably is. Further, as a professional book proofreader/copy editor, I'd have to say it's possible there might even be a typo within.
For example, my neighbor recently made a variety of Christmas cookies, and the walnut ones (of which she cracked each Turkish walnut individually!), had so little flour in the recipe that when she pulled the melon-ball sized treats from the oven, turned out they'd all melted together into one pan-size cookie!
We reviewed the recipe, and seemed clear that 3/4 cup flour for 50 cookies was just not going to fly. She was not deterred however, and played with adding more flour, water, and sugar (something I probably wouldn't have done), and in the end, the results were excellent.
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