Some years ago I joined this group when I had a project that was put
on the back burner but now have a bit more vigor and am planning on
finishing it this time. Yall answered quite a few questions. I
inherited my great, great grandmothers receipt book and am intent on
getting it published as a cookbook, along with my grandmother's
receipt box (and a few from my mother's). GG grandmother lived on a
large rice plantation in Low Country SC and as far as I can determine,
they date from the 1840's to 1870's. My grandmother catered to
Savannah society for over 50 years and have inherited her receipts
also. What I am looking for is any advice on how best to approach this
project. It is my idea to scan all the hand written receipts and
annotate the scans with translations, then to organize them along
traditions ways with receipts of the three generations side by side
for comparison.

Many of the older receipts of course are a bit obscure, and I was
wondering if it would be necessary to create modern versions of them
or do most people really just like to read cookbooks with very little
actual cooking done from them? Converting them into modern terms would
be a pretty large undertaking and would require skills much greater
than that which I possess. If any have suggestions to point me in the
right direction, I would be most grateful.

And if any of yall are volunteers that I enlisted in the past--I
apologize for not following through but would like to hear from you
again. I lost my computer years ago and all my correspondence. From
now on, I am going to rely on the best backup system the world has yet
produced--paper.
Tommy Armstrong

> Some years ago I joined this group when I had a project that was put
> on the back burner but now have a bit more vigor and am planning on
> finishing it this time. Yall answered quite a few questions. I
> inherited my great, great grandmothers receipt book and am intent on
> getting it published as a cookbook, along with my grandmother's
> receipt box (and a few from my mother's). GG grandmother lived on a
> large rice plantation in Low Country SC and as far as I can determine,
> they date from the 1840's to 1870's. My grandmother catered to
> Savannah society for over 50 years and have inherited her receipts
> also. What I am looking for is any advice on how best to approach this
> project. It is my idea to scan all the hand written receipts and
> annotate the scans with translations, then to organize them along
> traditions ways with receipts of the three generations side by side
> for comparison.

> Many of the older receipts of course are a bit obscure [...]
> Converting them into modern terms would be a pretty large undertaking
> and would require skills much greater than that which I possess.

Why not publish a facsimile and transcription (perhaps along with
other visual documentation - photos of the people mentioned, pictures
of the utensils of the period, maps...) and set up a blog site for
people to contribute intepretations of the originals?

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