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* In the ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode ''Cookie Dough'', Madame Foster has a special recipe for cookies that she only makes once a year. Bloo takes the recipe and starts making the cookies for profit, but they quickly fail to sell, because Madame Foster had a {{secret ingredient}} that he forgot: love.

* In ''VideoGame/ArmedAndDelirious'', Grandma's Recipes actually constitute the MacGuffin, with the villain stealing Granny's cookbook in hopes of recreating her famous soup. Fittingly for both [[WidgetSeries the game]] and [[DesignatedHero Granny]], the recipes therein have ingredients both bizarre and disgusting when actually given out.

* One ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverseStory'' has Scrooge try to discover the secret recipe for Grandma Duck's very delicious cakes, hoping to profit from it. Grandma Duck eventually discovers what he's up to and gives him the recipe, but the ingredients are very vague (e.g. stuff from the leftmost jar on the top shelf). She later agrees to let him mass produce her cakes, on the condition that she gets to be the CEO of the business, and that the recipe will remain her secret.

-->--'''''Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz''', ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', "Meatloaf Surprise"''

* Subverted in an episode of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' where Screech whips up a batch of his grandma's spaghetti sauce, which everyone at Bayside finds delicious. Zack turns it into a money-making enterprise, only to be threatened by a company who discovered "Screech's Secret Sauce" was from a recipe in their cookbooks. Screech says that of course it came from a cookbook because "Grandma was a lousy cook!"

** Monica and Phoebe try to replicate Phoebe's grandma's cookie recipe so that Monica can have the best cookies for when she becomes a mom. It turned out that she had just copied the ingredients and recipe from the back of Nestle Tollhouse's chocolate chips packaging. Or, in Phoebe's terms, [[PretentiousPronunciation Neslay Toulouse]].

** Monica and Phoebe try to replicate Phoebe's grandma's cookie recipe so that Monica can have the best cookies for when she becomes a mom. It turned out that she had just copied the ingredients and recipe from the back of Nestle Tollhouse's chocolate chips packaging. Or, in Phoebe's terms, [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY Neslay Toulouse]].

Grandma's Recipe is supposedly the list of ingredients -- some of which might be {{secret|Ingredient}} -- needed to create some of the [[ImpossiblyDeliciousFood best foodstuffs imaginable]]. The food can be anything under the sun, but most of the time, it will be some sort of ComfortFood, often cookies. It may even have therapeutic properties, as in SoupIsMedicine. Characters will either find this recipe and use it to their advantage in the plot, or they try to replicate it, which may or may not be successful.

* Red Riding Hood's grandmother from ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'' is called Grandma, and has a recipe for irresistible cookies. That is until this recipe and others like it are mysteriously absconded by TheVillain, who seeks to corner the goodie market.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'', Link's Grandmother will be able to make him Elixir Soup after a certain point in the story. It acts as one of the best potions in the game, not only fully restoring both health and magic, but doubling your attack damage until you take a hit. There's also two servings in a bottle so you can use it twice before running out, and you can receive more for free indefinitely anytime you return home. The only downside is that you can only carry one bottle at a time. It's also the only bottled item that makes Link smile before drinking, where potions get a grimace.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Monica and Phoebe try to replicate Phoebe's grandma's cookie recipe so that Monica can have the best cookies for when she becomes a mom. It turned out that she had just copied the ingredients and recipe from the back of Nestle Tollhouse's chocolate chips packaging. Or, in Phoebe's terms, [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY Neslay Toulouse]].

* TruthInTelevision: It stands to reason that anyone, such as a grandmother, who spends several decades making home-cooked food every day might be expected to become quite good at it. (The NostalgiaFilter is also possibly a factor, but don't tell people that.)