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[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

This isn't as crazy as it seems. In some bread and cake recipes, you can easily replace some of the oil with applesauce and have a successful bake. I've done this with muffins and banana bread to great success.

They're still being foolish as you need some fat for most bakes to work and using apple sauce introduces more fiber, protein and water instead of fat, but it's not a totally baseless substitution.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)
 Behavior |  Reasonableneses |

|----------|-----------------------------------| | Substituting applesauce | 8/10 | | One-starring the recipe because it didn't work out | 0/10 |

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Except "one-starring the original recipe because the modified recipe didn't work out"

Because otherwise it looks very reasonable instead of very not reasonable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I see your point. If you view the cells as separate contexts, then it would be necessary to specify that "the substitution" is the thing that didn't work out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"It” refers to the substitution, not the recipe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I see your point now. For me it doesn't really read like it, because you have it in another cell of the table which gives it too little weight as a possible context for dereferencing the pronoun, while also having a valid noun preceding the pronoun begging to become referenced by it.

Yeah, I must be fun at parties, I know 😅

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Lemmy supports tables? Damn, never seen one here in the comments. Good to know!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I was just winging it and it worked out!