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Post by Linda on May 12, 2021 20:23:53 GMT
I have a bunch of handwritten recipes in a variety of formats (letters, half-size loose leaf paper, recipe cards, index cards etc...) and some recipe clippings- some are my granny's that she wrote down and sent to my mum, some are mum's, and some are from mum's friends and cousins. Some are single sided but many are on both sides of the paper/card.
I think what I want to do is store the original in page protectors in an archive box and scan them to put into a recipe album. I think I want to type up the recipes to make them easier to read as well. And I'm thinking of annotating them in some way - at a minimum identifying who they are from and that they were my mum's and are now mine.
Thoughts? Ideas? What have you done?
Right now they were stuffed in a 3 ring recipe binder - some taped onto pages, many loose. I've put the loose ones into 1/2 size page protectors (the holes aren't a great fit but...) in the sections they were - there are also clippings taped onto pages. But that's just a temporary fix until I can preserve them better.
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Post by stormsts on May 12, 2021 20:36:08 GMT
I will be following this because I have the same problem. A problem I am happy to have!
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Post by Linda on May 12, 2021 21:05:31 GMT
A problem I am happy to have! yes- it is a lovely problem to have. |
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Post by mom on May 12, 2021 21:14:14 GMT
I did something like this, but only using one recipe but would love enough recipes to do a whole wall! (probably not what you are really looking for, but this is one of my favorite pins). |
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Post by mom on May 12, 2021 21:15:03 GMT
I have this pin saved too. |
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Post by myboysnme on May 12, 2021 22:47:07 GMT
I like to slide two sided things into a page protector so both sides can be easily viewed. I love your idea of typing up the recipe. If it is possible to include a photo of the person who wrote the recipe, and even a photo of the completed dish. Maybe do it in your normal 8.5x11 format, or 8x8.
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Post by Linda on May 13, 2021 0:21:14 GMT
I like to slide two sided things into a page protector so both sides can be easily viewed. I love your idea of typing up the recipe. If it is possible to include a photo of the person who wrote the recipe, and even a photo of the completed dish. Maybe do it in your normal 8.5x11 format, or 8x8. Thank you - I should be able to find photos of some of the people (the relatives) but not so sure on some of the others (friends - Dad was UK military and there were 9 moves(4 countries) in the 11 years they were married before dad retired - and mum worked on 3 different US bases in 2 countries before that) but maybe, I think it might depend on whether mum labelled any photos of them or not. As for photos of the dishes...that'll require me to cook them, won't it? A couple of them I make regularly and a couple more I have made once or twice but most I haven't. |
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Post by grammadee on May 13, 2021 1:51:22 GMT
Can you do a kind of hybrid album?
The recipes you continue to use, you can type up, maybe make the dish so you can take photos, and then scrap those.
The ones you don’t make, but you have memories of eating when your mum made them, maybe scan her handwriting for the recipe and then do some journaling about the memories. Maybe illustrate with photos of HER, or use stock photos of the places you remember being in when she made that dish.
If your girls or your sister want to try some of the unfamiliar ones, maybe you could scrap whole new adventures.
Then for the others, you can simply slip into page protectors, or if they are on recipe cards they could go into a PL style protector. Newspaper clippings you can glue to a sheet of pp or cs and add to your album like that.
But maybe talk it over with your sister and your kids to decide, do you really need to document them all. I have saved hundreds of recipes over the years, but most of them have very little meaning to me. I have saved the ones I make, and have them in a recipe file on my computer. I wouldn’t expect my kids to care much about the rest, unless it’s something they would like to try themselves.
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Post by Linda on May 13, 2021 2:40:00 GMT
But maybe talk it over with your sister and your kids to decide, do you really need to document them all. I have saved hundreds of recipes over the years, but most of them have very little meaning to me. I have saved the ones I make, and have them in a recipe file on my computer. I wouldn’t expect my kids to care much about the rest, unless it’s something they would like to try themselves. I'm only planning to do something with the recipes I recognise. There is my granny's fudge recipe (okay it's the Dominos sugar recipe from the box but) that she taught me to make when I was 9 and my kids all learnt to make. There's Granny's coleslaw recipe that was delicious but my mum, my sister, and I have all failed at making even with granny's recipe. Things like that plus ones I remember stories about - she used to make pita pockets from scratch because you couldn't buy them some of the places we lived and that recipe is in there. I've never made my own (but maybe I should give it a try?) Kids are sentimental and will enjoy whatever I do with the recipes. Sister is NOT sentimental which is how I ended up with the recipes (and the photos adn the...) and will make polite noises about what a nice job I do and wouldn't notice if I chucked it all in the bin instead |
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Post by don on May 13, 2021 3:09:23 GMT
I have this pin saved too. This, to me, is classic scrapbooking. Well done. |
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Post by grammadee on May 13, 2021 3:18:30 GMT
There's Granny's coleslaw recipe that was delicious but my mum, my sister, and I have all failed at making even with granny's recipe. Now THERE is a story to document! Do you suppose she left out something when she wrote down the recipe? I have heard of some people doing that by accident--and on purpose LOL. |
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Post by msliz on May 13, 2021 12:19:37 GMT
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Post by myboysnme on May 13, 2021 14:19:49 GMT
As for photos of the dishes...that'll require me to cook them, won't it? Well it requires SOMEONE to make them! Or possibly a photo on line from someone who did make it? |
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Post by don on May 13, 2021 15:58:49 GMT
If you don't cook it, what's the point? Unless you just collect recipes.
OK, I'm just a guy.
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Post by Linda on May 13, 2021 20:39:02 GMT
If you don't cook it, what's the point? Unless you just collect recipes. pretty sure my mum (who was not a gifted cook) mostly collected recipes. The ones I plan to preserve have stories attached to them - some I do make, others I haven't |
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Post by cbscrapper on May 14, 2021 12:28:51 GMT
There's Granny's coleslaw recipe that was delicious but my mum, my sister, and I have all failed at making even with granny's recipe. Now THERE is a story to document! Do you suppose she left out something when she wrote down the recipe? I have heard of some people doing that by accident--and on purpose LOL. I’ve always heard the secret ingredient is Grandma’s spit. 😉 (As in when she licks her finger to taste, etc) |
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Post by scrapnnana on May 14, 2021 22:53:53 GMT
My siblings gave me our Mom’s recipe box after she died. I wanted to do something special with them, but still be able to read and use the recipes that were in her own writing.
I started working awhile ago on a heritage recipe album with a small binder, using Graphic 45 papers (I think the collection I chose is called Home Sweet Home). The recipes will go into pockets when the album is done. There isn’t really much left to do on it, but it’s not quite finished.
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