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Cooking Tips
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Organizing Your Recipe Collection It's simpler than you think. And much easier than facing all those Xeroxed pages, e-mailed recipes or clippings from magazines and newspapers that are stuffed in a drawer. If you're ready for a change but not sure where to begin, try these helpful suggestions to get your recipe collection in order. 
Step 1: Get It TogetherGather all your recipes and start culling. Throw out any that don't fit your lifestyle (low-fat, quick cooking, too complicated) or your food preferences (are you really going to stuff squab?). Step 2: Divide & Conquer Separate the recipes that are left into the "keepers" and the "not tried yet." Put the "not tried yet" recipes into an accordion file. Put the "keepers" into your preferred storage system. Step 3: Use A Storage System Decide how you want to store the "keepers." There are several methods for saving recipes:
Find recipes fast by separating them into categories. Start by sorting your recipes into piles and see what types you have, such as Side Dishes, Desserts, etc. For ideas, check out our Recipes or browse through the index of your favorite cookbooks. Begin with broad categories like "Bread." As you collect more recipes, you can always expand to more detail such as "Muffins" or "Yeast Breads." Use the same categories for both your "keepers" and for your "not tried yet" recipes that are in the accordion file. Step 5: Get Started Set aside a realistic schedule of one day a week or once to twice a month to try out a new recipe. If you or your family don't like it, toss it immediately. This information is adapted from Cook It Quick!, University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension. Get more ideas from http://lancaster.unl.edu/food/ciq.htm |
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