Did your Mum or your grandmother clip recipes from magazines or newspapers? I treasure index cards, held together with a rusty paperclip, which are filled with recipes written in my great-aunt's cramped handwriting. 'Fork biscuits', anyone? I can certainly recommend her oaty cookies, and I thought it was high time to compile recipe cards, internet recipes and my own collection into one single place.
Moleskine have a new range of Passions journals and the hardcover Recipe one above, £15.99, has themed sections - appetizers, first courses, main dishes, side dishes, desserts, cocktails - as well as some for you to customize yourself. They've also included helpful conversion charts.
This leather Aspinal one is more traditional - it strikes me as the kind of gorgeous thing the lady of the house might use when she's sitting down with Cook to plan a dinner party that she'll be hosting, but not catering. It's £79.
This is the one I went for, from Paperchase, £9.75. I liked its simplicity - it's an A5 ring binder with section divider and plain paper, so you can be as expansive as you like when you're filling it in and also get refills later.
And if you need something to start off your recipe collection - here are some suggestions!
I love the Paperchase binder i have one myself in pride of place in my kitchen. It has helpful sections for the different types of recipes and plastic binder for magazine cuttings.
ReplyDeleteI gave a 'from me to you' book to my mum this year which means she can hand write her recipes in it and give the finished journal back to me as a gift. i cant wait to recieve it so i can one day pass it on.
Paperchase are brilliant with those folders. I used one of those for my wedding planning and it was perfect. Tastebook.com looks like a great way to have a printed collection of all your recipies. I've not tried it myself, but I have heard great things from others. Still, it's not quite the same as flicking through collected scribbles and writing from the years, is it?
ReplyDeleteI a, completely in love with the new Moleskine ones... *swoooooon*
ReplyDelete@Verity - the 'From me to you' book is such a lovely idea!
ReplyDelete@Mildew - yes, Paperchase is always reliable. I can spend hours and lots of pennies in there, always...
@Satakieli - one of my treasures Moleskines is a grey felt one that I bought in Paris *years* ago - still haven't dared to break that one out!
My God I need one of these. I keep writing down all of my recipes on little scraps of paper and leaving them around the house - which inevitably means I can't find them/they've been destroyed when I want to use that recipe again!
ReplyDeleteI love these and really need one! Mine are all in a plain white notebook :(
ReplyDeleteI have one from Paperchase (although not the same design as on here) and I love it. I'm a bit of a control freak so all of my tried and tested recipes are typed up and then laminated (got to love a laminator) and then put in the appropriate sections. I'm hoping that it can grow and grow over time to become my own personal kitchen bible. Maybe eventually try tastebook.com as sugggested by Mildew - good idea.
ReplyDeleteI'm clearly not doing this right am I? Everyone has a recipe journal! I have one, I just don't use it and rather prefer Miss Cay's method...
ReplyDeleteI have a recipe journal, the children bicker over who will get custody of it when I die.
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