How do you store your recipes?

happy35

I think Paperchase do nice ones, I was looking for a wedding album as a present and I am sure they had a selection of books to write recipes in next to them

loobyloo2

My daughter bought me a lovely book from TK MAXX, kind of a Paisley print in beige and green, and lovely thick white plain pages.
I think she only paid about £4.
She wants me to fill it with all her favourite recipes that I cook, so when she leaves home, she will be able to take it with her and cook the things she likes, she will have to learn the basics of cooking first though .

barneydee_2

Love the ideas on this link, I love cook books I have (at Last count) about 300 I have two tall Ikea book cases in my kitchen, the problem used to be i'd try a recipe and then forget what book it came out of, so know I have a little pocket not book that when I've tried something I rate it,write down what book it came from and what page it was on.

I also have a hand written book that has recipes that I have copied from this site and ring binders of recipes from mags, I buy all the monthly food mags I know,I know not very money saving :mad: I realy must stop this.

I did at one time have a file on my laptop with recipes in that I had copied from here and other food sits, then my old lap top brock and I lost the lot:mad: one day I would like to put my best recipes into a book form.

I like watching the hairy bikers "mum's knows best" when you see some of the people on there with recipes that have been in there families for generation. I find it a form of food history. unfortunley or should I say fortunely( as my mum was a useless cook:rotfl:) I don't have any of these.

Barneydee:rotfl:

CH27

I have a couple of ring binders & I store all the recipes in plastic wallets in them.
I often copy a well uses recipe from a recipe book & put it in the ring binder so I don't have to search through my recipe books.

maman

Interesting thread.

I've nothing very original to add about storage. Mine are in polypockets in a ring binder but the dividers are red meat, chicken, fish, veg, puddings etc rather than some of the other was of sorting.

What I did the other week was to have a sort through and remove recipes that I hadn't made in ages and wasn't likely to make again. The reason being that I have changed our eating habits hugely in the past year or so and some of them had far too much oil/pastry etc in them. Some I was able to adapt.

sharloid

I have lots of recipes that I'd like to organise. I know how I want them to store them but the problem is I can't find something suitable! Basically I want them printed onto card then attached to something that can be flipped over. My first thought was to use the Finlir picture holder (http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/90036207) from Ikea, but I realised that the silver hoops can't be opened.

P.S not a Rolodex, those things are ugly!

Does anyone know what I can use?

I hope it makes sense!

Thanks

Pink.

Hi sharloid,

This current thread has lots of advice that should help:

How do you store your recipes?

I'll add your thread to it later to keep the suggestions in one place.

Pink

LJM

card then laminate so wipe clean and use a split loop my mind gone a blank for life of me cant remember what it called but it will hold them all together

sharloid

LJM wrote: »

card then laminate so wipe clean and use a split loop my mind gone a blank for life of me cant remember what it called but it will hold them all together

But what would you use to hold them up/stand them on?

AlwaysAllie

You can get nice book rests - cast iron or wooden from memory (see links) - they're a nice kitchen feature if you have space. You could always make a nice cover for the recipes in colours/theme that matches your kitchen.

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/theorchard/product/cast_iron_cook_book_stand_antique_brown

http://www.houseoffraser.co.uk/Sagaform+Oak+Cook+Book+Holder/123279019,default,pd.html?cm_mmc=Googlebase-_-Home-_-Kitchen-_-Sagaform_Oak_Cook_Book_Holder

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