On Sun 29 Jun 2008 03:45:05p, Jean B. told us...

> Sheldon wrote:
>> On Jun 28, 3:57�am, Christine > wrote:
>>> Heya folks,
>>>
>>> I did it again. �And I was just getting ready to back everything
>>> up...I even got a new backup hard drive. �But not soon enough, it
>>> seems. �My hard drive, or something caused my laptop to die. �
>>>
>>> So..I lost all recipes. � I have been saving tons of them from rfc
>>> for years now.
>>
>> But why... is this recipe saving some sort of fetish... you certainly
>> can't possibly need to refer to more than a couple dozen recipes in
>> your lifetime... no one needs a recipe for stews, soups, salads,
>> caseroles, sandwiches, egg dishes, meat dishes, vegetable dishes...
>> unless you're canning/preserving, making sausage, confections, and
>> certain baked goods where ratios are important no one who can cook even
>> a little bit needs a recipe after the first undertaking.

I can certainly cook without recipes and probably do that most of the time.
However, if I want to precisely duplicate a particular dish that was either
from a written recipe or one that I devised on my own, I want it stored as
created. May recipes in my cookbooks have my notations written to indicate
what I did differently.

> Some might be heirloom recipes--or recipes destined for one's
> progeny. But yes, one could say I'm obsessed. :-)

Absolute agree.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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