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| ivmeer |
Posted - Oct 03 2005 : 09:01:04 AM
Years ago, I started clipping recipes from the paper. I have found some of my best recipes this way. I pasted them all in a scrapbook rather than use a recipe file, because I know my mother has lost many a recipe this way. Small scraps of paper are easily lost.
Recently, though, I have found that finding the recipes that I need has become a bit of a chore. I have started to enter them into the computer, in a Microsoft Word file, indexing them by type of food (soups, salads, poultry, fish, etc.). This is arduous and reqiures a lot of retyping.
What do you ladies do with the recipes you clip? |
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| mrstinylady |
Posted - Jun 04 2013 : 7:37:01 PM
Really arriving to this conversation LATE (been really really busy), but I LOVE TO COOK and tend to collect cookbooks from all around the world and clip recipes (rip them out of magazines most likely) and trade and for a lifetime. I even hit the library when they have a 10-cent sale and buy every related managine! I got outtamymind about the collection some time ago and then scrapbooked a few. That was really pretty, but never going to work for me. I tried Word and had too many to make it realistic (MS corrupts with larger files). So then my dogs got the groove and were thoughtful enough to purchase mom some recipe software (The Living Cookbook) and I applied my heart and soul to it long enough to log in 4000 recipes with about that many more to go (I did say busy, right?). This worked SO WELL that I recommend it!
I set up folders in this order, but anything in the general folder can stay there uncategorized.
01-BEVERAGES
Coffee Drinks
Liquor & Liqueurs
Punch
Smoothies & Shakes
Tea
02-APPETIZERS
Crackers
03-SAUCES, DIPS & DRESSINGS
Compound Butters
Dips & Fondues
Gravy or Sauce Toppings
Grilling Bastes, Rubs, Sauce, Marinades & Glaze
Salad Dressings
Salsa
Spreads
04-BREADS AND STUFFINGS
Batters
Bread
Muffins
Scones
Stuffings
05-SOUPS AND STEWS
06-SALADS
Fruit Salads
Meat & Seafood Salads
Pasta & Grain Salads
Vegetable/Greens Salads
07-FRUITS
! Mixed
Apples
Apricots
Banab=nnas & Plantains
Berries
Citrus
Coconut
Figs
Melons
Nectarines
Pineapple
Plums & Prunes
Rubarb
08-VEGETABLES
! Mixed Veggies
Artichokes & Sunchokes
Asparagas
Avacado
Beets
Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts
Cabbage, Kale, Spinach
Cactus
Carrots, Parsnips, Turnips
Cauliflower
Corn
Cucumbers
Eggplant
Green Beans
Mushrooms
Onions
Peas
Peppers
Potato, Sweet Potato & Yams
Pumpkin
Rutabagas
Squash
Tofu & Tempeh
Tomato
09-GRAINS
Beans
Bulghur
Chickpea (Garbanzo Beans)
Couscous
Grits
Lentils
Millet
Pasta
Pizza
Polenta
Quinoa
Rice
10-DAIRY & EGGS
Cheeses
Egg Whites
Egg Yolks
Milk & Cream
11-MEATS
Beef
Lamb
12-SEAFOODS
13-DESSERTS
HOMESTEADING & FOOD PRESERVATION
HERBS
NUTS & SEEDS
DIETS
FOOD INFO
WEBSITES
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| Rivergirl_2007 |
Posted - Jul 26 2012 : 08:48:48 AM
Clare - I have marked my appointment book for January 16. Let's see how many of us actually keep that appointment. What a great idea! I have a whole file cabinet full of cut out and family/friend recipes, small books from the 40's and 50's, etc. It is somewhat organized my catagories, but really needs to be gone through. My problem is that I am a collector. I can't bring myself to get rid of the old books, even if there are only two recipes I actually use. |
| FieldsofThyme |
Posted - Jul 24 2012 : 08:07:57 AM
I have them in a photo album that I can look through to pull one and try. After I filled that one up, I started scanning recipes and put them in a folder in my documents - much, much easier and no clutter. If I don't like it I can delete it. If I like it, I print it and glue it to a note card or hand write it (to save paper and ink).
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| SarahJ |
Posted - Jul 24 2012 : 06:02:46 AM
I second the Living Cookbook software! You can add pictures, and completely customize your own cookbook.
SarahJ
Farmgirl Sister #116
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| krissy |
Posted - Jul 23 2012 : 3:44:08 PM
For the clipped recipes that I have tried (and loved), I keep them in a 3-ring binder with pocket pages. Each page is double-sided (a pocket on each side) and labeled (meat, fish, poultry, desserts, salads, etc.) and I also keep a notebook sheet of paper in each pocket where I write down favorite recipes from my oodles of cookbooks. It's just easier to find the recipe title/book/page # in the notebook than scour through all my books looking for that one yummy recipe.
I have a stack of about 12 inches high of clipped UNTRIED recipes. I keep saying I'll make them one day, but I rarely do. One day, I swear, I'll make something from that pile! LOL!!! Actually, I do look through the pile for certain ones that I remember being there, and if the recipe turns out good, it goes in my binder. I don't have an organizational style for that pile yet, but no one has really complained about it, so who cares?? LOL
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| ceejay48 |
Posted - Jul 23 2012 : 12:13:42 PM
Mine go in a 3-ring binder that has pocket pages designed for recipes. The cover is also designed in such a manner as to be able to stand up as on a cookbook stand. I've had it for a long time and don't actually remember where I got it but it is the HANDIEST and the BEST!!
CJ
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Jul 23 2012 : 08:37:25 AM
I had to curb my enthusiasm, so to speak. I clip things or print off recipes from various sites and maybe only get to 20% of what I print out. I have been keeping the ones that I love, and writing them down on recipe cards in my binder so that they're always handy and one day, my daughter can have it, too.
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
The Only Living Boy in New York, Paul Simon |
| Bellepepper |
Posted - Jul 23 2012 : 08:25:14 AM
I bought a recipe album (like a photo album) about 30 years ago. It has plastic pages the size of standard recipe cards. I used that thing for years. I knew right where to go to find the recipe I wanted. Well that poor thing is so used up. The plastic is rotting and the cover and about every page has splatters of who knows what. I decided to do a new one and put everything in catagories. Well, Now I can't find anything. I want my old one BACK. You know, the one where the Washington State Apple pie was the first page and Peppernuts was the last and the meatball recipe and the 5 different recipes that I use meatballs in, was about in the middle.
My other problem is that I will cut out or tab in a magazine, a recipe I want to try. It will have one ingredient in it that I normally do not have on hand. By the time I get that ingredient, I can't find the recipe. That is why I have a bottle of Hoisen sause, a can of coconut milk and a can of anchovies in the pantry. Just waiting for the recipe to show up.
Belle |
| Dorinda |
Posted - Jul 23 2012 : 06:23:45 AM
So I am old fashion, I have a recipe Box I bought off the Amish. I write out all my recipes on index cards and file them away in my old trusty recipe box. The simple easy life.
Seize The Day!
Dorinda |
| mrstinylady |
Posted - Jul 23 2012 : 06:06:31 AM
I'm serious about recipes . . . my God! Last year I bought "The Living Cookbook" software and found that if I scanned the recipes, turned them into a PDF, I could copy them right into the program and have now added 4,000 recipes to their database. You can also capture anything from the Internet, so I have a list of about 1,000 food blog sites that I haunt on a rainy day! Okay, it IS a lot of work, admittedly, but I was able to give file cabinets to charity and free up the mess and worry about them. I actually considered disassembling my existing cookbooks to scan them, but then I really couldn't do it except with those pamphlet type booklets you find at the checkout. Anyway, I'm MUCH happier for this transition than ever before. |
| Libbie |
Posted - Nov 12 2006 : 6:59:30 PM
Thanks for the ideas! I need to go through all of these recipes and see how many are left after I toss the ones that I don't think I'll make again or try for the first time. That's the first step, anyway! After that, I'll go ahead and do the page protector thing, I think. I'm afraid that if I start with cards, my personality is such that I might spend WAY too much time "organizing" and fooling around with them - re-writing what's not "perfect." Ugh. None of that!!!
XOXO, Libbie
"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe |
| brightmeadow |
Posted - Nov 11 2006 : 10:05:27 AM
I found a loose leaf photo album that has clear pockets, 3 to a page. I made some section dividers out of tag stock and then just slide the clipped out recipe into the pocket of an empty page in the appropriate section. They sell refills for this type of photo album so I can buy more pages if I am inclined to cut out more recipes. I can put one on each side, and if I ever actually use the recipe instead of just looking at it, I can easily slide the recipe out if needed. Some cards are printed on both side(like the taste of home ones cards, or the ones I have picked up in the produce section at Meijers,etc. )
I did a quick web search to find something like I have here is a URL http://www.amazon.com/Pioneer-Refill-Pages-Album-STC-46/dp/B0000A9ZDD/ref=pd_bxgy_p_text_b/103-6293243-0053465 but i just bought it at my local drugstore.
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Nov 10 2006 : 9:58:27 PM
I have a cute little longaberger basket recipe basket with lid on the counter that I file clipped ones in and then when it gets too full I take them all out (probably once a year) and throw out the ones I never made and try to either write or glue the other clippings to recipe cards and file them in the catagories. I tend to use recipes from my cookbooks most..but there are some old favorites in that basket that I would sure hate to be without!! We did a family cookbook on my husband's side of the family one year and I got rid of the cards with THOSE recipes since I didn't need them in two places.
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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| ArmyWifey |
Posted - Nov 10 2006 : 9:43:51 PM
I too have a three ring binder that I've organized all my recipes in. Under headings such as Appetizers, etc. Then I put them on paper if small, print out and slip in a page protector. Voila! Organized and spill proof.
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!
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| ali2583 |
Posted - Nov 10 2006 : 8:35:23 PM
I have a binder in my kitchen with little tabs (meat, poultry, desserts, etc) and under each tab I have clear page protectors. I slide all my recipes into those, so if the recipe is two-sided, I can just flip the "page" (well, the page protector actually!)
"God's gift to you is life. What you choose to do with that life is your gift to God" |
| LauraH |
Posted - Nov 09 2006 : 4:01:12 PM
I have a filing bill expandable folder, I labeled the tops desserts, poultry, etc.. then when i want to try a new recipe it is right there!
LauraH |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Nov 09 2006 : 06:46:42 AM
When I use a recipe and like everything about it, I write it down in a book, looks kind of like a journal, you know, pretty cover, blank pages.If its a clipping I paste it in there or if its from another book I copy it and add anything extra to the directions that I thought was a good idea. That way I know that the ones in that book work for me and I don't have to go looking for them.
NANCY JO
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
| bramble |
Posted - Nov 09 2006 : 06:30:00 AM
Libbie- Have you made any of these "bagged" recipes? Last year after my accident when I was housebound I started looking at my stacks. Alot of what I had saved was similar to other recipes so I just added "alternate options" to existing cards and when I made them I decided if the alternate was better. If you haven't made any of these yet, I wouldn't waste time copying them until you know if you like them! I am starting to clip less and hunt online more, not sure if that is good either because I still print them out! Ai yi yi!
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| GaiasRose |
Posted - Nov 09 2006 : 05:56:45 AM
I have two places they go, either in the recipe box I got when we got married (that was stuffed with a few tasty family recipes) onto one of the cards, or into my black house book that I keep my recipes and menus and coupons and such in.
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Tasha-Rose
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| tiffany01 |
Posted - Nov 09 2006 : 04:38:42 AM
I still have the note from LAST Fall that says "winter projects" and lists organizing recipes. Sadly, it's still waiting to be crossed off the list. Also, let's not forget the journal I asked for for Christmas two years ago that I plan to list all my dessert recipes in - still empty. Everyone always says Winter lasts so long around here but it's never long enough to get all my winter projects done!
I have a file folder that I keep all new recipes in until they've been tried (or after they've been tried and are waiting for placement in a book) and occassionally I do throw out ones that I haven't got around to making, especially if they come from the internet. Recipes passed on from someone else tend to stay around longer. |
| Beemoosie |
Posted - Nov 09 2006 : 03:00:46 AM
I started out with good intentions, putting my clippings in a binder from Taste of Home. Now they are kinda here, there and everywhere.
My Grandma gave me my mom's tin lunch pail, it was full of recipe clippings! I think it's hereditary(sp)!
Bonnie
...she is far more precious than jewels and her value is far above rubies or pearls.
Prov 31:10
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| Libbie |
Posted - Nov 08 2006 : 9:02:49 PM
I had to bump this one up - I have this bag - yes, BAG - of recipes in my kitchen in the corner that I just don't know how to organize. The perfectionist part of me wants to write them all on recipe cards and file them in a darling recipe box or basket (that I don't have yet), and the new mother in me says (in a charming sing-song voice, of course) "you're dreaming..."
Any ideas? I'm tempted by the computer organization idea, but revving up electronics when I want to cook is somehow unappealing to me. What do you gals do?
XOXO, Libbie
"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 25 2005 : 09:40:24 AM
something else i love to do .. is when i use a recipe from a book .. i will often write WHEN i used it .. what ocasion or who i mae it for .. and ancy changes i made have made to the recipe. and if it was a 'gift' of food .. i even described how i wrapped it (always trying to stay within the 'theme' of the food). |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 25 2005 : 09:38:37 AM
i actually stopped clipping recipes years ago .. because i found that they just piled up .. and i collect so many cookbooks .. that i can find a recipe for 'just about' anything fairly fast. |
| mountainmama |
Posted - Oct 12 2005 : 8:12:42 PM
Well, you all inspired me to get to that MESS of recipes in my drawer. After reading everyone's ideas, I immediately headed to Bed, Bath and Beyond...on a Saturday, no less - tells you how desperate I was to get this project under way...and bought a bunch of photo album pages. I also went to Staples and bought 2 thin black 3-ring binders, went home and got to work! I now have a beautiful compilation of recipes placed in the photo album pages - the kind that peel back and you place your item, large or small, down and cover it back up. It looks so great, and I can better preserve those recipe cards that were written by my grandmother and great-grandmother...not to mention the EASE I now enjoy in finding a recipe!
Lissa
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