diff --git a/tests/legacy/__init__.py b/tests/legacy/__init__.py
index 64b571fb5..e69de29bb 100644
--- a/tests/legacy/__init__.py
+++ b/tests/legacy/__init__.py
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-import unittest
-from typing import Any, Iterator, Optional, Tuple
-
-import responses
-
-
-class ScraperTest(unittest.TestCase):
-    maxDiff = None
-    test_file_name: Optional[str] = None
-    test_file_extension = "testhtml"
-    scraper_class: Any
-
-    @classmethod
-    def expected_requests(cls) -> Iterator[Tuple[str, str, str]]:
-        """
-        Descriptions of the expected requests that the scraper-under-test will make, as
-        tuples of: HTTP method, URL, path-to-content-file
-        """
-        filename = cls.test_file_name or cls.scraper_class.__name__.lower()
-        path = f"tests/test_data/{filename}.{cls.test_file_extension}"
-        yield responses.GET, "https://test.example.com", path
-
-    @classmethod
-    def setUpClass(cls):
-        if cls == ScraperTest:
-            # Only modify setUpClass if subclass of ScraperTest
-            return super().setUpClass()
-
-        with responses.RequestsMock() as rsps:
-            start_url = None
-            for method, url, path in cls.expected_requests():
-                start_url = start_url or url
-                with open(path, encoding="utf-8") as f:
-                    rsps.add(method, url, body=f.read())
-
-            cls.harvester_class = cls.scraper_class(url=start_url)
-
-    def run(self, result=None):
-        """
-        Python's unittest (default) test runner will want to run tests
-        from a class/module if there are test_* methods in it.
-
-        We don't want this to be the case with ScraperTest though.
-        We also don't want to flood our logs with loads of "skips".
-
-        Overwrite the default built-in runner in this case
-        and make it not attempting a run at all.
-        """
-        if self.__class__ == ScraperTest:
-            return None
-
-        super().run(result)
-
-    def test_consistent_ingredients_lists(self):
-        # Assert that the ingredients returned by the ingredient_groups() function
-        # are the same as the ingredients return by the ingredients() function.
-        grouped = []
-        for group in self.harvester_class.ingredient_groups():
-            grouped.extend(group.ingredients)
-
-        self.assertEqual(sorted(self.harvester_class.ingredients()), sorted(grouped))
-
-    def test_multiple_instructions(self):
-        # Assert that the instructions_list() method returns more than one item;
-        # this implicitly also confirms that instructions() returns a newline-separated
-        # value of type 'str'
-        instructions = self.harvester_class.instructions_list()
-        message = (
-            "Most recipes contain more than one instruction, but this recipe test "
-            "did not.  Please check the implementation (and source HTML) and either "
-            "fix the code, or override this method in your test module if you are sure "
-            "this is the expected behaviour."
-        )
-        self.assertGreater(len(instructions), 1, message)