How do you recognise a well used recipe?

[tim]

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[tim]

[Curryandchips]

Some of my cookbooks look like that, I can tell where certain recipes are just by the stains !

[katynewbie]

 ;D ;D

Yep! My Good Housekeeping Cookery Book, from the 1960s, has certain pages which are nearly unreadable or stuck together!

;)

[floraldi]

My first one fell apart but my son gave me the one his ex wife left behind.
There is some very stuff in there if you sit and read through one evening. These days I mostly make some good cake recipes I have been given that can me made in the "all in one" method i.e. all the ingredients can be put in one bowl and mixed well together. Must post some recipes!

[tim]

Wives are good?

Yes - Delia's a great 'all-in-oner'.

[saddad]

The stain quota is the most reliable check for a good recipe...
;D

[Mrs Ava]

I have gardening books like that - not food smudged of course, but muddy or wet!  My delia and my dairy book of home cookery are held together by hairy string and tape!!  ;D

[valmarg]

You get the cookbook, put the binding on the worksurface, move your hands apart, and the book flops open at the page/recipe you want.  Got quite a few books that behave like that!!

valmarg

[triffid]

Add to which, we have so many recipes cut from magazines that we're steadily scanning them and filing them into our own computer-based recipe book.

Next step, a laptop in the kitchen, so we don't end up wasting paper printing them out when we want to use them!  ;D

[Barnowl]

Don't forget to cover the keyboard with clingfilm, Triffid!

[triffid]

Oooh, nice one Barnowl.

Voice of experience?? ;D

[Barnowl]

Amongst other things I look after PC's at work - biscuit crumbs are't too bad,you ca\n shake them out,  but flour and water? :D