How do you store your recipes?

joannasmum

Transcribed into my original recipe book from school cookery lessons. My mum bought it for me when I started high school it was about twice as thick as anybody elses but I'm still using it, I also have hers which I use all the time

jayarr_2

i do the index box thing, am currently writing up recipes i use, and those i've saved and putting them on the cards..also laminated them too

eryn_kathleen

I'm reviving (or hijacking!) this old thread to ask whether anyone's used something like this flip frame from Ikea:

http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?topcategoryId=15573&catalogId=10103&storeId=7&productId=15710&langId=-20&categoryId=15709&chosenPartNumber=90036207

Not very OS, but I was hoping to find a similar version but cheaper and with more pages (not asking much, am I?). I've got an old lever arch file for all my recipes, but my idea is to print my most frugal recipes - all from here! - onto cards and put them in this frame to keep on the counter, so they don't get lost in my other recipes.

I'm hoping it would also make me think 'Yay - frugal!' instead of 'Urgh - cheap!'.

newlywed

I print the recipes out and add them to a "display folder" from WHSmiths. The kind that is A4 with lots of plastic pockets bound together in a plastic folder. Keeps it clean when I am cooking and it fairly easy to "flip" over and fold the whole thing back on itself.

vfairbrass

newlywed wrote:

I print the recipes out and add them to a "display folder" from WHSmiths. The kind that is A4 with lots of plastic pockets bound together in a plastic folder. Keeps it clean when I am cooking and it fairly easy to "flip" over and fold the whole thing back on itself.

I do it this way as well - the keeping recipes clean when using bit is a big plus. I have had to expand it so that I have one folder for baking - cakes, biscuits, breads as this is my big love- and one for meals, which I don't enjoy doing so much.
Valerie

newlywed

vfairbrass wrote:

baking - cakes, biscuits, breads as this is my big love- and one for meals, which I don't enjoy doing so much.

I'm the same. I love baking cakes and things. I cook meals because I have to - that's why I'll try and cook extra and freeze so that I don't have to cook every night!!!

HariboJunkie

printed off t'internet or cut out of mags and put in polypoackets in a file, very loosely organised into starters, main courses, puds, baking, soups and christmas.

julbags

Similar to vfairbrass and newlywed. I use display books and have several. I recently had an organisation exercise as I was just shoving things into the pockets and it was getting a bit unwieldy looking through all of them. I split it into mains (quick and more time consuming), soups, starters, baking etc. I was quite surprised by the amount of dessert and baking recipes I actually have!

Spendi

ones in magazines and stuff i just cut out and shove them in the front of a bought recipe book !

The ones on here i copy and paste print out and put in poly pockets

flourgirl

I store most of my recipies in word, so it's easy to cut and paste from this site, but the recipies I tend to use a lot are in an index file on top of the microwave. Like jayarr I have laminated them so they can be wiped if spilt on. I think housemouse100's idea is good, putting them into oven temp order. I will put that on my "to do "list. Thanks