At one time or another I would look at the jumble of cookbooks and collected recipe cards in my kitchen cabinet and think that there must be a better way to organize those recipes. Something to gather them all in one place, ordered and protected, within easy reach. A family cookbook perhaps? Meals and Memories: How to Create Keepsake Cookbooks answered my need and gave me a few new ideas for wonderful keepsake cookbooks.
Author Kathy Steligo really leads the reader by the hand through basic steps to collecting, organizing and designing keepsake cookbooks. Before you start on your treasury of recipes, there are many points to consider depending on what the purpose of your keepsake cookbook will be, or really who will be the main user(s). If you're like me, you wouldn't have thought ahead about the differences between a cookbook for your own home and one destined to be reproduced for a fundraiser, for instance. When do you most need page protectors, and which type of binding system is best for personal gifts? Is it better to handwrite or use computer journaling? How could you include the original recipe cards on your pages? Never here, the solutions are in here.
Now a caution to all you scrapbookers: this book is focused more on the organizational, practical issues about preserving favorite recipes. You don't consult it for cute page ideas about recipes in your scrapbook layouts, you read it to find out how to make a complete, working volume for use in the kitchen. Sure there are some tips on decorating and design, references to other books and resources to teach you further about design and journaling, even an introduction to archival preservation basics and techniques, but that's not the main point here. This is a no-nonsense guide to getting it all done in a simple, orderly fashion that leaves plenty of room for personalization and artistic flair, but at your own discretion.
All that being said, I learned a lot about keepsake recipes and even came away with inspiration for how to do my own collected recipes books for family gifts. If you are serious about preserving this part of your family heritage, or just want to remember good times with friends and food, this is the ideal introduction to the topic.
-Andrea, aka Merribelle
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