Recipes - how do you store / organise yours?

[Mel]

Just wondering how others store / organise their recipes?

I have two big lever arch files that I store mine in - usually they are recipes I've clipped out of magazines, or printed from the internet. I stick them on A4 paper and put put them into those plastic sleeves -which are great because they are removeable, and wipeable!

Mel

[emmcee]

That's a great idea Mel. I have 2 books one for sweet things and one for savoury but they are full so I have lots of bits of paper swimming around in them.

Plus I have about 35 cook books too!

[Mel]

35 cookbooks?? :faint: I probably have a dozen or so...if I'm lucky lol. Sounds like you almost need a bookcase just to hold your recipe books Gail ;) Do you actually use recipes from all the books, or do you just like to collect them?

Mel

[Pam]

Ommar! I just did a rough count and I have over 90 cook books! I used to cook a lot, and expecially loved trying out new recipes. I've written beside each recipe I've tried, a rating out of 10. Really handy as a reminder. A guick glance through a few books just now & I found one recipe has Crap written beside it LMAO

Since I've got my piano & sewing machine tho, the interest in cooking has suffered, and I just stick to the favourites recipes I know by heart.

Mel, I cut out fav recipes and pasted them in an exercises books

[emmcee]

It depends Mel, I have favorite authors like Nigella Lawson and I cook a lot from her books, and then I have some from my Mum and some like Common Sense Cookery Book and CWA Cookery book which are real blasts from the past.

Others I may have one or 2 recipes that I like form them and others have been gifts. If I am doing a themed dinner party say like Mexican - I'll go and buy a couple of Mexican cookbooks and then scour Sydney for the ingrediants do the dinner party and never use the cookbooks again!!

[Mel]

Pam, with 90 cookbooks you could start a library LMAO A good idea with the rating - I've seen my Mum and Grandma do that, but just can't bring myself to write in my books...?

Gail, I seem to have collected mostly Chinese and Indian cook books. I like to do a 'theme' when having a dinner party too...not that I have many LOL. I usually tell people not to bring anything for the meal, as I get really flustered if it doesn't fit with the theme. Pretty pathetic...I know :blush:

Mel

[emmcee]

Not pathetic at all Mel I am exactly the same!!!

[Pam]

Hi Mel & Gail,

We are huge fans of Thai/Asian and Indian. My fav Indian recipe book has to be Madhur Jaffrey's Ultimate Curry Bible. Charmaine Solomon has great Asian and Thai books, but I also have a huge collection of Woman's Weekly cookbooks ..they are so simple, and everything can be found at your local supermarket.

Mel, I never worry about writting in my books, when I'm 10 feet under someone might just be glad I wrote Crap on one of my recipes LOL

I have a very much treasured recipe book that belonged to my Great-grandmother! 1889 Mrs Beetons Shilling Cookery Book. Inside is several recipes cut from a newspaper pinned (rusty) and several hand written recipes :)

[mel35]

Hi Everyone
I have heaps of cookbooks probably about 300. Ihate throwing anything out, Ihave lots of Womens Weekly & Family Circle cookbooks. Books on birthday cakes, parties,ice cream, soups, herbs, vegetables, slices, desserts, healthy eating & diet + heaps more.
The 2 I use most often are Womens Weekly Basic Cookbook & a ring folder my dad made up for me years ago (while bored at work) with all mums recipes in it.
The first one i got was The Common Sense Cookery Book- mum gave it to me when I moved out of home.
Mel

[Marsha]

Hi,

Mine are not organised at all! All shoved in a cupboard with bit of cut-out recipes sticking out in every direction!

Love Marsha

[Helen]

I have a few cookery books, but I have never used them LOL. I did have my first cook book, that I got in High School home economics. It was a wonderful little book. Unfortunately it got lost in a move :(