"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
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> On Sun 30 Jan 2005 11:06:36p, Damsel in dis Dress wrote in
> rec.food.cooking:
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.. A few years ago, I decided to put my "little of this and
>> little of that" stuff into bona fide recipe formats in MasterCook. This
>> includes vegetable beef soup, dilled potato salad, even tuna sandwiches.
>> I want to make sure that if I'm first to kick off, Crash can still make
>> "my" food. It also helps me already, because I'm not always able to
>> remember how I accomplished things in the past.
>>
>> Does anyone else do this?
>>
>> Carol
>
> Yep, I started doing that a couple of years ago. As I would make
> something I liked and refined it to specifics, I entered it into
> MasterCook. I've also tried to do that with things my mom "told" me how
> to make. Lest I forget why something tasted the way it used to taste, I
> can back to the basics.
>
> Wayne

I never thought to write these things up for myself, but it is a brilliant
idea for just the reasons stated.

When I first got married, my mother would send me recipes for "her food" a
couple of times a month. The mailings are really neat stuff. They are
dated, typed on stationery from my dad's business and obviously hunt and
peck typing. It is the housewifely hints that are fun. She recommends
shopping for produce late on Saturday afternoon because the prices will be
marked down on bananas, peaches etc. Prices were marked down because all
stores were closed from 6 p.m. Saturday until 8 am. Monday and the produce
would spoil during that time. She references things like 'get a ten-cent
soup bone.' I've used these recipes off and on for 40 years and finally
this winter I put them all in sheet protectors.

My married daughter has most of 'my food,' as a result of requests over the
years. The format is email, so it won't be as fun for her to think back.

Thanks for the idea about writing stuff down.

Janet