Q&A: How do you keep your recipes?
Written by Guest on December 31st, 2010Question by jessica: How do you keep your recipes?
I want to start collecting all my recipes together, but not sure how I should keep them. In a recipe box maybe, or in a small spiral notebook? How do you keep yours?
Best answer:
Answer by jonesy
I keep mine in a spiral notebook. You can either paste ones you get from mags or from friends and then write the other ones in. It also gives the option of notes. How it turned out, what would you change, did your family like it?
Good luck!
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December 31st, 2010 at 1:47 am
I have a special file on my computer for all of my favorite recipes that I can just print off whenever I need a specific recipe. It is very helpful keeping recipes on your computer because they don’t get lost,and it is quick and easy to find the recipe you want,print it out,and use it!
December 31st, 2010 at 2:34 am
I keep mine in a separate folder called “recipes” on my computer. Then when I want to make one I just print out the recipe
December 31st, 2010 at 3:22 am
I have completely lost control.
I have cuttings from 30 years in a file cabinet. Probably a foot thick of files filled with recipies. I collect cookbooks and have over 700. And the real sad part of the whole deal is that I am too lazy to find recipies in my saved recipies and cookbooks and end up going to foodtv.com or epicurious.com because it’s easier to find what I want.
December 31st, 2010 at 3:55 am
When I first got married, the people from my husbands church bought me a big photo album you slip the pictures into & everyone gave a recipe with their gift. To this day, I keep my recipes in photo albums. They are easy to wipe clean if I touch it with ingredients on my hands & they are pretty!
December 31st, 2010 at 4:50 am
I print them on index card’s then I laminate them ,so they do not get food or anything else on them when I use them. then after using I put them in a spiral book. they are always clean and if u spill anything on them it is east to wipe off. good luck
December 31st, 2010 at 4:58 am
Some on the computer in myfamily.com place, those I use often or don’t want to lose or get ruined
Some in a binder type folder with plastic holders like for pictures, made especially for recipe sized cards.
Some I am going to give my children in Recipe Boxes
And the rest are in cookbooks in a drawer.
My favorite..the computer, not in something that if it crashes you will never see again though.
December 31st, 2010 at 5:32 am
I’m such a mess! I have a couple websites with my recipes…then i have a note book where i write some too….then i have random loose-leaf pieces of paper that have recipes on them too…and they are all everywhere! and the funniest thing is, i dint really use ANY of them and also stick to the same things that i know taste good!
although*** the other night i did use a recipe and it was really good!!!!! i should totally look at recipes and cook more often! LOL!
December 31st, 2010 at 6:26 am
i still have my 4-h book from over 30 yr ago I have it in a backpac (i keep in my bed room behind my glider)other recipes are kept in those lil tins that cookies come in.when I wanna cook other than what books I have in the kitchen.I sit in my glider bring out the memories and good eats
December 31st, 2010 at 6:54 am
I have them in a recipe box and they are by type of food – cookies, cakes, soups, etc. It is very very full but I like it that way. My most precious recipes are in the actual handwriting of people I am related to, or have had friendships with, so I really love it when someone writes a recipe for me on a 3X5. Some of the recipes I have are from people who have already died, so they are really special to me because I have their handwriting and there are little notes or comments on them so it reminds me of their personality and who they were. I use a lot of recipes from the Internet, and have plenty of cookbooks, but the box is a prize possession. I have had it for almost 40 years, it is copper, and always seems to need polishing.