Tried making my grandma's lentil soup recipe and it came out totally different

So I finally dug out my grandma's old handwritten lentil soup recipe from the 70s. She always used a ham bone for flavor but I just had a regular smoked turkey leg from the store. The soup turned out way greasier than hers and the lentils got mushy after 45 minutes instead of the hour she wrote down. I guess things like pork breeds and cooking times really have changed over the decades. Anyone else run into this with old family recipes?

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abby18912d ago

45 minutes is way too fast for lentils to turn to mush?

emerycarr11d ago

Actually, 45 minutes isn't too fast for lentils to turn to mush if you're not careful. The red and yellow ones especially, they break down in like 20-30 minutes if you boil them hard. You gotta watch them closer than you'd think. I usually check mine at the 20 minute mark just to be safe. Lentils are weird like that, some types go from firm to complete mush faster than you expect.