Customer Reviews

Family Recipe Collection Book

5 star:		(17)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

I am putting together the third book for a bridal shower gift. It's a great gift if you are a close family member or close friend. For all three showers I sent out cards and pages from the book in advance. Grandmoms, aunts, cousins,moms and even fathers and uncles were eager to share recipes and stories. Even if you just give a blank book to the bride, it's a great gift. My nieces gave cards from their albums out to collect recipes they want long after their weddings. For my son's wedding I've already started putting together some of the recipes he will want his wife to know and the wedding is a year away. One of the best features is the sheet protectors to enclose some of those old handwritten recipes. I was able to include some from a great grandmother who died years ago. What a treasure!

I recently bought this from a discount salesperson for approximately $15, but I probably would have paid full price if I had seen it beforehand.
The 3-ring folder is printed in beautiful italic calligraphy. Each tabbed section contains a plain page (also printed in calligraphy with lovely spiraly/floral decorations) for writing text. This is nice for noting special cooking reminders--something longer than would fit on an index card--and for hints that don't really go on a recipe card. There are also plastic inserts for photos or newspaper collections in each section. Finally, there is a pocket in each section for putting in index cards with recipes on them. The index cards are also decorated in the same motif. The only thing I don't like about the set is that the recipe cards are larger than the normal ones. This is great as long as you intend to use this notebook to keep them in, but don't appeal to my sense of order.

I got this for my wife, who had asked for a place to keep recipes. This is a great storage solution, because it allows so many different formats: clippings, printouts, the included cards and full-page recipe sheets, anything.

I'm not a huge fan of the cover; I would have liked the book even better with less ornate stuff on the cover. But it's the kind of thing one can excuse, given the high quality of the overall product. It's much more useful than competing products, as far as I can tell.

The book is very attractive, has good pages for inserts and recipe cards, however, the one I received had misaligned rings that did not close properly. In addition, I was disappointed and rather put off by the author's detailed memories printed on the back of each divider page. Her family memories are appropriate for her and her family, but not so appropriate for others. It spoiled the book for me and now I am hesitant to present it (with recipes) to my daughter-in-law-to-be at her bridal shower.

I love this book. It come in a nice printed box and was a lot bigger than I expected. It is all and more and would make a great gift.
You can also order extra pages.
5 star product

Mernin's recipe collection book is the best I've seen. I was thrilled when I received it. I liked it so much I'm getting ready to order another as a gift.

Like most everything about it, including the fact you can order refill pages if needed, however loading my own collection of recipes I noticed there were a few categories I would have included that don't have tabs here, so I would have added tabs for CHILI, PASTA, SAUCES and STEW. Or even an all-purpose CROCK-POT. So it's a lovely set, but definitely not a perfect one; the definitive recipe collection method is probably still out there somewhere.

I actually used this book to put all the recipes into after typing them into some cookbook software (Matilda's Fantastic Cookbook Software). The end product looked great! I'm buying five of these books and am going to give them away to everyone next christmas.

This is one of a very few items I have purchased on the net that I am "more" than satisfied with. I couldn't believe the quality of this book - actually, it is a 3-ring binder. And, I can actually run the pages through my computer printer (my penmanship is very poor). It's wonderful. I was very pleased.

I purchased this for a friends daughter for a wedding gift. She loved it, makes me feel good when a gift is so appreciated! Anyhow, there's room for those recipe cards that friends and relatives share their favorite recipes on and a place to put recipes in that you clip out of a magazine, and more cards to put your new favorites on. Wish I'd have received something this great back in the dark ages when I got married!
I recommend this as a shower or wedding gift or just as a gift for yourself. It's always a good thing to be organized in the kitchen.