Once I attended a local foodie meetup, and a local influencer who has their own recipe blog says that if you change a recipe by 3 ingredients you get to call it your own recipe instead of having to credit the original recipe author.
Don't know if it's true, but since then I'm always skeptical whenever a recipe calls for 1/4 teaspoon of some random spice 😅 Is it really a crucial ingredient, or are they just adding extra ingredients just because?