"Janet Bostwick" > wrote in message
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> "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

Janet, my husband received 3 hand-written recipe books of his grandmother's
(b. 1885). The recipes have different names, like "Mrs. Cherry's New
England Chowder," etc. He is scanning/has scanned these and saving in two
formats. One format: in a .pdf file and one source on a DVD. At Christmas
time we sent CD's to cousins. The CDs contained photos, marriage
certificates, important papers in their lives, and recipes. The cousins
loved them. This is a good way to preserve recipes, sending a CD of the
recipes to various members of the family.
Dee