"jmcquown" wrote in message ...

On 5/28/2013 1:23 AM, Polly Esther wrote:
>
> Dave wrote:
>>> I'm assisting a family cookbook project (technical support I guess). My
>>> involvement will be to get the book laid out and published. My
>>> questions to those that have done something like this a
>>>
>>> * What were the problems you ran into and how did you solve them?
>>> * How did you publish the cookbook - hard copy, web, etc?
>>> * If you went for hard copy, was it a booklet, book, other?
>>> * Did you self-publish or have a commercial printer do it? Were you
>>> happy with the results and would you recommend them?
>>> * If you self-published, what software did you use?
>>> * What were the costs?
>>> * Looking back, what would you have done different?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your time!
>>>
>>> Dave,
> I'm so glad you're taking on this challenge. I had two sisters-in-law
> who were just wonderful at cooking. I followed them around during their
> grand productions asking questions and taking notes. They were truly
> grand. Both SIL had 2 sons, no daughters. I've wondered if any of
> their offspring would be interested in their recipes and notes. Polly
>
A little bit of thread drift here... many years ago I managed to
recreate Grandma McQuown's [Pennsylvania Dutch] potato soup with what
she called rivlets (rivels - tiny egg dumplings). My dad and his sister
(my Aunt Winifred) had not managed to do so. Dad tried it and said yes!
That's it! <G> I posted the recipe here and one of my cousins
stumbled across my post [elsewhere] online. He called his mom (my Aunt
Win) and she was thrilled when he told her he'd found it.

All that to say I'll bet some of those offspring would be happy to have
copies of those recipes and your notes.

Jill

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I had forgotten about rivlets. I grew up in northeast Ohio, and one of our
favorite restaurants for lunch was a place that specialized in a type of
chicken/vegetable soup with rivlets (not potato soup, although yours sounds
good). That was my "go-to" order when we ate there. Thanks for the
memories!

MaryL