On 25 Dec 2004 10:48:09 -0800, wrote:

>After many years, I finally convinced my wife to store recipes on the
>computer. I am sure everyone is familiar with the problem. She keeps
>her recipes in a long slender box. When she needs a recipe, she hand
>searches all the recipes in the box. Some of the recipes have come from
>the newspaper and are well yellowed with age, almost unreadable. I
>would like to scan her favorite recipes but I do not know where to
>start. So far, I just put some recipes in a folder on the desktop, but
>I know that is not the way to go especially if she is going to search
>for a particular recipe. Most of the time she just requires the recipe
>and not a lot of superfluous information. I hope someone out there can
>point us in the right direction.

This is what I have been using for quite awhile. I have version 5. I see
they're up to version 8 now. Think it might be time to upgrade?
http://www.valusoft.com/products/mastercook.html

Christmas Carol
--
"Years ago my mother used to say to me... She'd say,
'In this world Elwood, you must be oh-so smart or oh-so pleasant.'
Well, for years I was smart.... I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."

*James Stewart* in the 1950 movie, _Harvey_