The Story Behind Our Most Requested Recipe Ever

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'When Marian Burros, a longtime food reporter for The New York Times, first wrote about the plum torte in September 1983, no one expected it to become the most requested recipe, and among the most beloved, in the history of the newspaper.

It certainly appeared without fanfare, nestled in the bottom left-hand corner of the page, accompanying a brief report about the arrival of the Italian plum season. With just eight ingredients and five short steps, it didn’t seem to have the makings of a hit.

Yet after the fact, the newspaper received so many requests for the recipe that the editors decided to reprint it the following year, and the next, and each subsequent year until they decided it was time to put an end to the madness. In 1989, they ran an updated version (three-quarters of a cup of sugar, rather than a full cup) with a broken-line border, encouraging readers to cut it out, laminate it and save it.

Ms. Burros wrote: “This could really be the last time we print the recipe. Really!”

Numerous letters arrived in protest.'>>>

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/dining/marian-burros-plum-torte-recipe.html?

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1. Thank you for this...

I make pdf copies of recipes and put them in my Nook, it is so handy to use for recipes in the kitchen.

I remember my grandmother making something like this, I can still taste a faint memory of it.