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How do you store your recipes?
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I have a Mastercook CD which acts as a database and also works out nutritional values. You can do menu plans, it generates a shopping list and you can tie it up to your storecupboard. It's excellent and I should make more use of it:rolleyes:
http://www.valusoft.com/products/mastercook.html (though you can get it loads cheaper on ebay etc)
I have several hundred cookbooks (many inherited from my grandma, and I have carried on the habit), but I only transfer them to Mastercook when they have been tried and tested. It makes it very easy to find what I want to cook, and there are various Yahoogroups etc that collect recipes in mastercook format so you can transfer them easily. I guess I'm a cookbook nerd:rotfl:0 -
I cut out of magazines can keep them in a box file, they are not organised, but I havn't really got enough to organise yet. Baby Steps here.
If i've copied them of the interent, then I copy and paste into a word file and save them under "cooking" folder then whatever the receipe is called.
When I use them, I print them off, onto scrape paper, then they live in the box file.0 -
I've got a little book I handwrite the recipes in.
Well, that's the idea, anyway. So far I have "stew".0 -
I haven't got loads yet, but the ones I have got (picked up from here) are stored in Notepad, if I had them on bits of paper they'd have been lost by now0
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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 the same but add a piece of paper to each` sleeve` so I can use both sides to store recipes.0 -
I've got a lever arch file, or rather I did have and now I have 2!!! And all the recipes I've got I hole punch and put in this file. I have got dividers to divide it all up, soups, chicken/duck/turkey, pork, lamb, beef, veggie, sides, desserts, misc!Official DFW Nerd no. 082! :cool:Debt @ 01/01/2014 £16,956 Debt now: £0.00 :j
Aims:[STRIKE] clear debt, get married, buy a house[/STRIKE]ALL DONE!!
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i use a small A5 clip file as a housekeeping file, and the recipes i use that *aren't* already in books on my (substantial) cookery bookshelf i put in there. I don't tend to get them from magazines, so i don't have that type to worry about, its recipes i get off the net that i write out. I have a large number of bookmarks, its when i use a recipe and i think i might use it again that i write it out. the back of the clip file has an A-Z, like an address file, so i put them in there by the main ingredient. They're written on sheets of A5 lined paper.
when i want to cook something i take them out of the file, and i have an A5 size poly "folder" stuck on the kitchen cupboard, which i slide the paper into and read from there. it keeps it clean, and keeps the folder out of the kitchen - i have a space issue in the kitchen - and works for me!
keth
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I do a similar thing to a lot of others and have a hard back notebook that I transfer recipes into once tried/tested/adapted etc. I actually have the same one as two of my friends, we all got them together and spent an afternoon customising them. Now whenever we meet we all bring them along to look through each others books and nab new recipes!!!
'New' recipes go in notepad until I know if I want them in the book. However, some pages are dusted with flour etc so I like the idea that other people have suggested of laminated/plastic pockets. :T
LucyVery excited to be marrying my partner in crime for the last 7 years in September 2012 :jNo longer a midlandsfairy... back living in the sunny south!0 -
I have three ring binders, cunningly designed to open and scatter 20 years of recipe clippings all over the floor everytime I touch one:mad: These contain recipes clip[ped from various magazines, recipies from family and friends and canabalised cook books where I was keeping a whole book for three recipes.
File 1: SAVOURY DISHES, sub divided into: Chicken:Pork:Beef:One Pot:Vegetarian etc
File 2: PUDDINGS, sub divided into: Fruit, Pastries, Merringues, Souffles etc
File 3: ENTERTAINING, sub divided by course and almost organised by season. Each recipe has a dated, running list of guests who have eaten that dish so that I do not serve it to them again (although some cheekily make requests for a repeat:rolleyes: )Life's a beach! Take your shoes off and feel the sand between your toes.0 -
I too like to cut recipes from mags or newspapersand i keep them in a clear plastic A4 project folder from muji - recipes can be seen from both sides so get lots of room. I review a few timese a year to clear out the recipes i haven't made in years!0
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