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Scrapbooking Your Family Recipes
by Vera Raposo
I recently came across a neat idea for a scrapbook. The person, who
created it, took her family’s favorite (and famous) recipes and created
a scrapbook out of them. Recipe scrapbooking is such a great way to make
sure all these great recipes of members of the extended family are
preserved.
Start by getting all the recipes together. Look through your own notes.
You’ll be surprised how many of the recipes you already have. Mine are
usually scribbled on pieces of notepaper and then stuck into one of the
cookbooks I have.
You can handwrite the recipes directly in the scrapbook, on a piece of
paper or even a recipe card. Of course you could also type them up in
your computer and print them out.
Take a quick inventory of the recipes from other family members that you
already have. Are you missing Aunt Betty’s famous peach cobbler recipe?
Call her up and get it.
Talk to other members of your extended family about your recipe
scrapbooking idea. You will get plenty of suggestions about what else to
include.
You can organize the recipes within the scrapbook by course, or by the
family members. Group a few of the recipes on one page, or dedicate an
entire page to each recipe. Include pictures of the person you received
them from and pictures of the dish itself if you have them. I also like
to add a little note about each recipe. You could write about how your
great-grandmother brought this recipe with her from Italy, or how you
invented your famous pie because you were missing one of the ingredients
of the traditional recipe.
Add some cooking or baking related borders and pick up a set of recipe
themed stickers to complete your family recipe scrapbooking album. Take
it to your next family function to share it with everyone that
contributed a recipe. You could even ask them to add a personal note
about each recipe. Be prepared to add more pages, or create a second
book as more family recipes start to surface.
You may be tempted to dig out the scrapbook next time you are fixing
grandma’s famous roast. Don’t leave the scrapbook lying on your kitchen
counter while you cook. It’s to easy to spill or splatter something and
ruin all your hard work. Instead, jot the recipe down on a piece of
paper, or even better, get a small binder and put all the recipe form
your family recipe scrapbook in plastic page protectors that you can
easily wipe off.
Creating a family recipe scrapbook is a great way to preserve your
family’s recipes and pass them on to the next generation of family
cooks.
Vera Raposo has been scrapbooking since her oldest child was 5. With
tons of scrapbooking tips and ideas, Vera is now sharing some of her
best scrapbooking ideas on her radio show at
http://www.scrapperstalkradio.com.
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