That one is funny as hell due to the embarrassment it caused li'l high-cheeks Fauxohontas.
But in the real world, does anyone believe those recipes in family, or school, or church cookbooks originated with the person who submitted them?
My guess is that 98% of them were, at some point, copied from some other cookbook.
Now, with the search power of the innertubes, it's easy to discover their origin.
Once you find the origin, the chance is probably 95% that it was copied from an even earlier recipe that isn't online. And that one was copied from an even earlier one, and so forth back through the generations.
Recipes are about as far removed from intellectual property as you can get.
A bit of trivia for you GOBUCKS-----
Back in the time when slaves were forbidden to be taught to read or write, it came as a huge surprise to Martha Washington to find that her lowly kitchen staff from the 6-60 year old could in fact read and write.
How did this happen ?????
Seems to prepare any meal the staff needed to know how much of what was needed and math comes in here too, how much of each ingredient to use.
Martha as did the Lady's of the time have their own recipe book with perhaps their own grandmothers and mothers recipes handed down.
Intellectual property not so much but a source of reading ,writing, math, horticulture, history, of the unavailable plants used in Europe 100 years before them, and the planting and harvesting schedule for their area. Cooking times depended on how much wood would be needed to keep the stoves going, the number of barrels of salt meat needed to get them through the winter. Then the old recipe books also had directions on making non food items, how much lye to make soap, fat for candles, how many yards of cloth needed to make clothing, how many yards of leather to make shoes.
Sort of an early runner to the Farmers Almanac. All this the Gentry took for granted never questioning how their Slaves did the job with being refused any Education. The very idea that the ignorant Slaves were learning without formal education was as far fetched as a chicken that could speak English.
It was the family cook books that from necessity were the door to education for the Slaves who often were found to grasp math so fast they were elevated to run the financial business of the Gentry.
Interesting in this day and age to get hold of the old cook books or diary's from the times of the depression. Check them out and you may find History in them. What was plentiful and what was seldom used due to lack of. North, South, East and West what their diet consisted of tells a story of Climate, and living conditions.
