How do you store your recipes?

[spikemomma]

I need to work out how to store my collected recipes, which are not in a book. How do you do it, what do you recommend?

Some stuck in a recipe book my mum gave me years ago, and some put in one of those plastic A4 files with transparent pockets.

Thanks Bigtilly, was thinking about plastic pockets, then i can keep the pictures and see how badly i got it wrong!

im compiling a cook book for my boys to have . I have put some of my mums old recipes in it too...melting moments and bakewell tarts. They said dont peg it without leaving your gravy recipe....great

I tear things out of magazines etc. and keep in plastic wallets... but once they've been tried and liked (or once I've managed to get my DM to spill the beans so I can do her recipes) they get written into my family recipe book which includes lots of things my Granny used to cook too.

I got a great book for Christmas called the Dodo cook book. My sister bought it me because I'm always complaining about my messy drawer in the kitchen which was full of magazine cut out recipes and my own scribbles. In the Dodo book you can organise your recipes into subject i.e. Fish, Meat, Starters etc. It has an elastic band around it to keep it all together. Couldn't live without it now.....

www.dodopad.com/cookbook/cookbk1.htm

Hope this helps

Amy x

Ah piprabbit, that sounds such a lovely thing to do. I want a family pass me down book now. What a lovely thing to have. Jealous!

Greatormondst - that book looks very practical, funnily, i was tol about something similar in paperchase. Will have to investigate further...