Whenever I do a recipe type post I pull out my motley collection of recipes I've collected over the years or pull from something I've seen online.
The issue with that is it isn't very photogenic.
I got to thinking I should clean up my recipe collection so I could file them all away neatly. I have recipes that I copied at the tender age of 19 (before I knew how to spell pilaf properly) and while some were kept semi-consistent with my kitschy 70's recipe cards, most were just saved on scrap pieces of note paper.
So when I do a food related post I usually copy the recipe on a template recipe card that has a kind of vintage, tried and true, look to it.
I decided I would start migrating my hodge podge collection of recipes and I would just keep with the recipe card template I like. I would recommend looking on Pinterest for a template that speaks to you. The one I like is from HERE.
I copied the image into a MS Word document and then layered text boxes on top. I did alter the original graphic of the recipe card to lighten it up a bit. The font I used is Traveling Typewriter. I printed two to a sheet of card stock and then cut them down to size (6" x 4")
While I'm not sure I'm quite ready to toss those late 70's, early 80's recipe cards out just yet I don't have any problem getting rid of the various scrap pieces of paper I have with recipes on then.
I noticed that most of the earlier recipe cards are for baked goods or desserts and some of the recipes are just awful sounding (anything calling for cream of chicken soup…) or undecipherable. I do like how I consistently recorded who the recipe came from. I must have tried it and liked it enough to ask for the recipe.
I hope you all have a wonderful week.
I have recipe cards from my grandmother in her handwriting and consider them among my most precious possessions. She died in 1981 and was 82 years old. All of the recipes needing butter or margarine say “oleo”. Many of them are casseroles which aren’t very popular or healthy but once in a while I make one out of nostalgia. I make her tuna noodle casserole and coca-cola cake every year on her birthday.
Like you, I still write letters and notes but I think we’re becoming a rare breed. For me, handwriting seems more intimate – so I vote you keep your handwritten recipes which your grandchildren may one day cherish and giggle over.
Oh I love this! None of my recipes are written in anyones hand but my own but I am a bit nostalgic for my 18 year old self. My mother kept a notebook where she would write down recipes and it is just a treasure. My sisters and I will be talking about something she would make and well bring out her notebook to see if it was copied down in her precise, meticulous handwriting. It still sits on her cookbook bookcase in my fathers house.
I will hang on to my recipe for Cornflake Hay Stacks. Who knows? They could come back in style.