What do you keep your recipies in?

[tinkerbell23]

I have an old red book...which i treasure as its handwritten by my aunt...but id love something different?

Obviously im just thinking a fancy notepad...and yes over years it will probs get messy but so what....

Was just wondering if anyone kept a nice folder or something xx

[vodkancoke]

I have 4 recipe binders, my cookery school folder and 2 recipe card boxes all full of recipes. God help whoever inherits that from me lol xx

[lady-janine]

a file with punch pockets and dividers to separate different main ingredients. i get quite anal if it is not orderly.

[starone]

I've got a folder I kept when I was doing an online diet, in case I needed it again, but it never gets opened. I used to have a recipe book from McDougall's flour which I used all the time. It got really battered and covered with bits of oil, grease and cake mixture. It has gone to that great recipe book home in the sky, commonly known as the recycling bin but it got used well before it went.

[Buenchico]

I keep my recipes in my head!

I make them up as I go along, and modify then (as required) every time I use them.

I've often wondered if the reason why there are far more male chefs (at the top of their profession), than female ones, is because we guys are far more confident about experimenting. (I rarely look at 'proper' recipes. If I do, it's only to get a few 'pointers'. I'd never follow one exactly; it's much more fun to try something different!).

[tinkerbell23]

I love my wee red book, and take care of it...but id like to have everything written somewhere else..in a folder or laminated...its only me thats into baking aside from my gran and my late auntie! Mum or her sisters arent and im the only one who makes anything....so i got the book and all the utensils lol....

Just fancy knocking up a wee something i can add my own stuff too! Tinks cookbook...i get loads i fancy trying....

Do you cook strictly to recipies or with a bit of "flare" i really want to learn how to knock up my own recipies! I can with "food" but not baking lol xx

[lady-janine]

i so a lot of experimenting but i also love reading recipe books especially the more professional ones. i'm not good i just like reading them and dreaming.

[Ann]

I started off with an orderly ring file with plastic wallets, in various sections for different types of recipes. Now many years later this file is so fat it's got a huge elastic band round it to keep it closed and the recipes are all loose inside and are bits of paper, cuttings from magazines and newspapers ........... the laugh is, I hardly ever use it as we are permanently on a diet in this house!
Starbuck, I too have the McDougall's book from around 1970 and an old BERO flour recipe book from 1968 when we got married - cost 1/6d !! Good recipes in there!

[karenmac60]

I have never owned a recipe or a cookbook in my life. Maybe that's why my cooking is so Sugar.... ;)

[Buenchico]

Tinkebell:
As I've said, I don't follow recipes exactly but I do answer plenty of posts from people who are seeking recipes. My favourite resource is here:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/content/recipes/
As it's a UK site, the recipes all use British measures. Further, most of the recipes have reviews from people who've tried them (so it's a bit like a foody version of TripAdvisor). Worth a look, perhaps?

[erin-x]

We just have a big notebook with sunflowers on it... Nothing special :-)

[tinkerbell23]

Anne! I have that book! Haha! That was one of the things i was passed!! I use it to this day...esp the pastry!

Have any of you used the mydish website!?

I think a folder..mabye i will get nice paper and really take my time making it? I have been arty farty recently....and divide into food and baking .....

Im excited...(loser) and i might even have a to try section...i rip bits out of magazines and papers etc...as do family....oh mabye ill take pics of my creations and add to the recipie!! X

[Buenchico]

Karen:
I've got a copy of this book, which answers any basic questions I might have. (e.g. how long should I cook a particular vegetable for?). I've had it for nearly 40 years (and I know most of the answers by now!) but I still wouldn't be without it!
http://www.amazon.co....-Patten/dp/0600312348

I'll also study anything which helps me use my microwave better. (I've recently learnt how to microwave individual portions of vegetables inside a vented sandwich bag, with a VERY small amount of water, with superb results!)

[Ann]

I still have my school recipe book from 1960 - what a hoarder I am!!! The recipes were reproduced on a "banda machine" in the school office, a huge machine with a handle you turned - no photocopiers then ..... does anyone else have anything on this banda paper - blue ink, and they are all handwritten by the teacher. They have gradually faded over the years but still readable. Thought you would be interested in this Chris!

[Ann]

The old banda machine used for my school recipe book
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator

[tinkerbell23]

Chris i seen a recipie today for microwave brownies!? Xx

[tinkerbell23]

Amazing ann!

Mabye one day my kids will laugh at their mums written cookbook with pics haha!

Seriously i think im going to almost do a scrapbook with a wee pic of my late aunt and pics of my gran...they both taught me to bake x

[lady-janine]

my three oldest books are:
1. mcdougalls price 1s, called home cookery book when i was 1st married 1961
2. the home cookery book published by howells of cardiff given to me by my elderly neighbour in penarth. no publishing date inside.
3. instruction in cookery - book of receipts. which as far as i know came from my great grandmother and is about 150 years old.

all three of them starting to fall apart especially the last two.

[Buenchico]

The greatest thing about a spirit duplicator (a.k.a. Banda machine)
http://cdn.dipity.com...566919478002f5_1M.png
was the smell of the resultant copies. The kids never read them; they only sniffed them!
;-)

[Ann]

My oldest published cookery book I have is The Woman's Own Cook Book published 1964.

[hollie1586]

I have a family recipe book, all handwritten which was started by my great grandmother which was passed on to me last year. It's like a family heirloom!