organize recipes and compile "cookbook"

During lunch at work for the past week. I have cut out recepies from magazines and put them in a binder.

my mother has a folder with mini pamphlets of recipes and magazine pages of recipes, news paper clippings of recipes, recipes written down on random papers. i was thinking of making a “look book”/cookbook for her. in addition i have a few magazines like SELF, VEGITARIAN TIMES, and SHAPE that i need to tear out pages of to make a “look book”. in this look book i was going to put in all the healthy recipes and interesting diets and exercises. so when in need of a new routine or recipe, take a look in the LOOKBOOK !

But havn’t finished. I have quite a few recipes that I enjoy printed out, but I never got around to putting them in a binder and finished to be consiered a “cookbook”. But I’ve taken the first few steps, so there is some hope.

So I’m having trouble with the fact that I have all sorts of recipes in my recipe folder… printed pages, magazine clippings, hand-written cards… all in different sizes and with various food-stains on them.

I’ve decided I’m going to lay out a nice looking, uniform page in illustrator or InDesign (maybe vary the pages by color for categories) and then transcribe all my recipes into these pages, put them in plastic sleeves and have a really nice, tidy book when I’m done. This way, I can keep adding pages as I decide which recipes are “keepers” and it will be consistent.

Thank you recipezaar. Easy way to put in and look up recipes. Even Raw recipes.

I have files of recipes ripped from magazines, recipes on 3×5 cards, and some old recipes from relatives. I need to figure out a way to compile them in an organized way. I’m thinking of a three ring binder used like a scrapbook—glue the recipes in. I have an empty scrapbook that I may try to use, but I will need divider pages to organize the recipes by category.

This is a brilliant idea to save old family recipies and pass them onto our kids n their kids ~ Go on leave a memory of childhood for time to come….

1. Learn to Bake Bread

I’ve been making my own bread for a while and I can give my final recipe. You need these ingredients: moist yeast 25grams, salt, wheat flour 500 grams, water 400 grams or 450 if you add linen seeds and wholegrain cereals like rye and whatever else you find interesting.
start the oven at medium to small heat at the beginning.
1. warm a little bit the water and then put the yeast in. let it be for 2 min and then mix it until it completely disolves in water
2. in the 2 spare minutes mix the flour with 1-2 teaspoons of salt, and if you want and have, add the whole grain cereals.
3. add the resulting things together and mix well until everything is nice and even. let it grow for 30 minutes
4. spread some oil on the pan and after that put the future bread in the pan.
5. let it grow for another 20 minutes and in the meantime decorate with some seeds the top
6. put in the oven for 50 minutes….until it forms a nice golden crust
It may seem like time consuming but it’s not if you do it in the weekends in some morning and your acctual presence is needed for max 20-30 min. Until it grows and gets cooked you can do some needed household stuff. And try to see how many bread pans fit in your oven. In mine fit 3….so I have 2 breads for the week ahead and one I usually give as a gift.

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GOTTA TRY THIS RECIPIE SOON !!!

But definitely worth it. That was like a century ago I did it (used manual typewriter gasp and pasted recipes on pages) so now I would do it differently.

In fact, I need to do it again. This time I’ll use the PC.