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kleinbl00 · 3803 days ago · link · · parent · post: 33 Genius Three-Ingredient Recipes - Imgur [Found on reddit, I admit]
Gourmet Magazine had a monthly article entitled "Four Ingredients" on their last page from about 1992 until they shuttered. It was pretty much this. They also consistently made the argument that the fewer ingredients you used, the more finicky the recipe was likely to be: their classic example was the tarte tatin, a heavily execution-dependent dessert. Many of the things shown on this page are also likely shown on Tumblr disasters - those "peanut butter cups" are the sort of thing that, if you don't know how to work with chocolate, are going to disappoint you more ways than you can possibly imagine. Fans of simplicity in cooking are recommended the 1930 classic French Cooking in Ten MInutes by Eduard de Pomaine.