I really do have to get all of my Mother’s recipes together so they can stay in the family. There’s lot of things that she’s made for us all our lives… that you just can’t get the same anywhere else. They’re fairly basic items I’m thinking of rather than lavish meals… like her quiche, potato bake, cheese biscuits (cookies), apple crumble etc…
I’ve asked her for the recipes over the phone before, but it’s not easy to get it all down on paper that way… as she’s been making these things so long she’s really never had to measure anything. She can just throw in “about this much flour” and “about that much sugar” etc… and things turn out the same every time. Since the rest of us can’t necessarily, I might make these things with her when I visit, and make sure we measure things and write them down as we go.
Once I have all the recipes, I might do it all up in a proper scrapbook or something. I’ll make a few as I’ll want immediate family to all have a copy. I’ll have to keep the scrapbooking side simple though, as it’s not my forte at all. Although I have a sister who is good at that kind of thing so maybe she’d oblige.
