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Title: How do you recognise a well used recipe?
Post by: tim on October 29, 2006, 17:43:00
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Title: Re: How do you recognise a well used recipe?
Post by: Curryandchips on October 29, 2006, 17:48:13
Some of my cookbooks look like that, I can tell where certain recipes are just by the stains !
Title: Re: How do you recognise a well used recipe?
Post by: katynewbie on October 29, 2006, 19:06:08
 ;D ;D

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

;)
Title: Re: How do you recognise a well used recipe?
Post by: floraldi on October 30, 2006, 18:46:50
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!
Title: Re: How do you recognise a well used recipe?
Post by: tim on October 30, 2006, 18:51:12
Wives are good?

Yes - Delia's a great 'all-in-oner'.
Title: Re: How do you recognise a well used recipe?
Post by: saddad on October 30, 2006, 20:05:03
The stain quota is the most reliable check for a good recipe...
;D
Title: Re: How do you recognise a well used recipe?
Post by: Mrs Ava on October 30, 2006, 22:20:56
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
Title: Re: How do you recognise a well used recipe?
Post by: valmarg on October 31, 2006, 14:21:45
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
Title: Re: How do you recognise a well used recipe?
Post by: triffid on November 01, 2006, 14:33:25
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
Title: Re: How do you recognise a well used recipe?
Post by: Barnowl on November 01, 2006, 15:22:41
Don't forget to cover the keyboard with clingfilm, Triffid!
Title: Re: How do you recognise a well used recipe?
Post by: triffid on November 01, 2006, 20:48:56
Oooh, nice one Barnowl.

Voice of experience?? ;D
Title: Re: How do you recognise a well used recipe?
Post by: Barnowl on November 02, 2006, 09:34:11
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