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I'm all for using box mixes like this to make something easier if you wanna bake shit... but this seems a bit odd...
It was a box mix... does that really need passing down? It looks like she sub'd oil for butter and thats it. I'm sure the box suggests a little less butter now... so like, a little less oil? I can't imagine the box mix cookies are just plain trash now either, unless they just are.
There are a lot of recipes out there that use boxed cake mixes off-label. Like I saw Dylan Hollis make something that involved one can of pumpkin puree and one box of spice cake mix. There are a lot of things like that which are going to break if package sizes change.
They may not be authentic homemade gourmet organic quarter sawn BPA free low sulfur fair trade influencer grade but there's a lot of people who are nostalgic for recipes like that because it's what mama made in the 80's, and we used to sit around that godawful yellow table with that one chair that had a gash in the back, you remember that? And she'd put that icing on it, that cream cheese icing.
The image I hate most is someone trying to do the old thing of one box of this, one can of that, the batter's not how they remember but whatever, bake...doesn't come out right, over bake...what's going on? And now we're wasting food because "a box of cake mix" isn't what it used to be. All because we suffer a few billionaires to live.
My point is, all she did was change butter for oil. She didn't do anything special or fancy like your suggesting.
They use the box as a base ingredient.
I doubt the recipe is "Use the box as instructed"
All judith needs to do is mix up her own cake mix.
When you look at some of the cookie mixes today from them, its use the box, 1/3 cup of butter (or whatever it is, already forgotten the exact amount), and 2 eggs.
Their family recipe in the article was use the box, 2 eggs and a 1/3 cup of oil.
You have a different quantity of leavening relative to ypur fats due to the size change. The whole thing will be goopy until you sort out the baking soda/powder which can get difficult since you use so little relative to the volume of the batch.
Sometimes it's easy to be sentimental and nostalgic over trash food. It's why I love Taco Bell. Especially right now because the 7 Layer and chili Cheese burritos are both back temporarily.
Sound like peak 50/60 style cooking