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https://theshovel.com.au/2025/05/01/mushroom-recipe-allegedly-plagiarised-from-recipetin-eats/

As if things couldn’t get worse for the Victorian woman accused of murdering her relatives by serving them Beef Wellington laced with death cap mushrooms, she now faces fresh allegations that the lethal recipe was plagiarised.

In a bombshell courtroom twist, Erin Patterson was accused of directly lifting the delicious but deadly recipe from the popular food website RecipeTin Eats.

The Crown Prosecutor noted the “uncanny similarities” between the two recipes, particularly the instruction on the RecipeTin Eats site to “carefully dispose of the mushroom dehydrator immediately after use”.

The founder of the RecipeTin Eats website, Nagi Maehashi, says the poisonous Beef Wellington dish is one of her signature recipes, and was even included in her recent cookbook in a section titled “Showstoppers and Heartstoppers”.

Maehashi says it beggars belief that Patterson independently came up with ideas, such as serving her own slice on a different coloured plate, or claiming to have bought the mushrooms from an unspecified Asian grocer. “Both of those are straight from my recipe – Steps 4 and 9 -it’s there in black and white, right after the instruction to gently brush the pastry with egg wash and arsenic”.

The bestselling author said all she expected from Patterson, and from other would-be murderers, was a simple acknowledgement of the recipe’s origins. “Just a small attribution,” Maehashi said. “It’s such an easy, polite thing to do before sending your lunch guests to their certain deaths.”

Patterson has denied the allegations, insisting that she’s been making her lethal Beef Wellingtons since 2014, long before RecipeTin Eats first published its recipe. “I might be a murderer, but I’m not a plagiarist,” she told the court yesterday. “Even I wouldn’t stoop that low.”

Patterson said she has personally reached out to Maehashi, inviting her to a special lunch at her house so the two of them can resolve the dispute in private.

This is really not funny. People died, another was seriously ill, she’s on trial. How is this funny?

LOL