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My Mom has thousands of recipes. I'm not talking about cookbook recipes; actually, she never really had many cookbooks.
No, my Mom has papers and cards filled with recipes. Some are quite old. And I couldn't even begin to comment as to their organization.
But I can tell you this: you'd have a better chance of breaking into a secret, black ops lab and stealing weapons-grade plutonium than getting my mother to give up, say, her sugar cookie recipe.
Although she has promised her collection (in triplicate, I hope) to my sisters and me when she dies!
But someone out there has taken the time to scan and post all his Mom's old and tattered recipe cards.
My grandparents have a similar collection. When I was quite small, I decided their recipes needed organizing. So, I pain-stakingly glued recipe cards and newspaper clippings to my green, lined-so-you-learn-to-write-in-cursive school paper; page after page. Stapled together, and given with love and pride.
You know, my grandmother still has that...
Recipe card link courtesy of Pop Culture Junk Mail.
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My Mom has thousands of recipes. I'm not talking about cookbook recipes; actually, she never really had many cookbooks.
No, my Mom has papers and cards filled with recipes. Some are quite old. And I couldn't even begin to comment as to their organization.
But I can tell you this: you'd have a better chance of breaking into a secret, black ops lab and stealing weapons-grade plutonium than getting my mother to give up, say, her sugar cookie recipe.
Although she has promised her collection (in triplicate, I hope) to my sisters and me when she dies!
But someone out there has taken the time to scan and post all his Mom's old and tattered recipe cards.
My grandparents have a similar collection. When I was quite small, I decided their recipes needed organizing. So, I pain-stakingly glued recipe cards and newspaper clippings to my green, lined-so-you-learn-to-write-in-cursive school paper; page after page. Stapled together, and given with love and pride.
You know, my grandmother still has that...
Recipe card link courtesy of Pop Culture Junk Mail.
- Cook Until Desired Tenderness: Book & Contest
Remember the Griffin and Sabine books by Nick Bantock? They were beautiful, filled with the most amazing collage-style prints and illustrations. The stories were romantic and magical yet never mushy. They were like children's illustrated books but...
- Yum:software
As I have mentioned before, I LOVE cookbooks. But cookbooks have their physical limitations. They get messy. They can be hard to keep open and cook from at the same time. And who hasn't made something from a recipe, enjoyed it, then at a later date,...
- Off Topic...
Not weaving, not food... I'm talking ecards. I just have to give a little plug for the most wonderful ecards you've ever seen. If there were such a thing as artisinal ecards, these would be them. They are created by Susan of Visual-Voice.net,...
- Bpw: Valentine's Day
I'm a gal who loves getting mail. And I know that, to receive mail, I also need to send it. So, after seeing posts around the blogsphere about a postcard swap, I decided to join in. Lucky me, this round is just in time for Valentine's day!...
- Break It Down
I don't know about you, but I'm constantly bombarded with 'join our cooking/recipe' magazine/club/group' mail. Cooking Light, Southern Living, Cook's Illustrated...you name, I get mail from all of them. I try to be strong, but...