How do you keep your recipes?

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Do you have a database or a box of cards or a lot of books with post-it notes or are they all in your brain or are they all printed on the back of the box or what?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 20 November 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Oof, a big mess. If it's not in the cookbooks on my main shelf, it's written or printed out on a piece of paper tucked into those cookbooks. OR, it's in a folder where I keep menus from favorite or often-used restaurants from throughout the years. At least those loose recipes make great bookmarks for often-used recipes in the cookbooks themselves.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I have a lot of epicurious.com printoffs stuck inside the cover of one of my breadmaking books.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 20 November 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a 3-ring binder. I get those three ring binder plastic cover sheets and just slide whatever printout or magazine page into the protective sheets. It keeps the recipes from getting messed up while I'm cooking.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

ach, organization. Mine are stuck in the pages of other cookbooks, yes actually stuck to the results of said recipes. Yay for unidentified food matter

― nora (nora), Sunday, 21 November 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The plastic covers are covered with butter and brown sugar detritus. I laugh at myself because my cookbooks have crumbs in the binding cracks between the pages.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

in my head, which is why they're never the same twice and sometimes go completely tits-up

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Funny you should ask. I have in front of me a cheese-o-riffic commercially printed binder called "The Personal Cookbook". It contains basic kitchen information and many pages in which to write your own recipes. Some of my recipes are written in the nice little format- most are printed from my PC or whacked out of magazines and jammed into the front of the book. I got a wild hair tonight and cut and pasted two of them into their proper spots. Then I felt virtuous and went and ate something.

I have had the book for a great many years. It has meat recipes in it and I've not eaten cows or pigs in 15 years nor fowl in 10. It has a recipe from Justin Wilson's tv show in it. That's ages old, I think.

― Rabin the Cat (Rabin the Cat), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 06:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Recipes? Porkpie OTM.

Except when I'm baking, best to be precise then.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I keep much better track of things now that I'm putting out a little cookbook for friends and family ever year (I'll put the link to this one's up when it's done) -- my ex was always calling to ask me how to make such and such, so I started writing down what I'd done after making something, although I never measure anything that isn't for a baked good, so the proportions are guesses.

For me, it's been useful mostly for reminding myself of things I had made and could make again.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Things made up or cribbed off friends/the interweb get typed and printed out several to a (themed) page and bunged double-sided in a presentation book with plastic pockets. The book loosely starts with snacky startery things, oddly enough, and goes through meat and veg type things through to baking at the end. I may do a cull once the book's full. My mum has a nicely twee hand-written recipe book that my sister and I made for a birthday when we were younger to replace her falling-apart one that had travelled across several continents, but I like to remain flexible because I'm easily bored.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 26 November 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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