I've tried emailing recipes to myself, cutting and pasting them into a Microsoft Word or Google Doc or even just printing them out to add to the ever-growing three-ring binder.īut now we have access to all kinds of software and Web-based programs to keep track of recipes. Recipe curation and collection has come a long way since the good old recipe card-in-a-box system, especially since so many recipe websites have popped up. I received two Ask Addie requests for storing and categorizing recipes online, and to be honest, I go back and forth on the best system for my own recipe stash. Surely there is some way to reduce the splatter-stained pages taking up a kitchen counter! Would you look into this? (Tore the house apart looking for that one.) It would be wonderful to put them in some kind of alphabetized or categorized by ingredient file in my computer. When I need a recipe, it is like a blizzard looking for the Acorn Squash with Cream and Swiss Cheese or Auntie Yasmine's Apple Cake, which I've had for 40 years. I've been tearing recipes out of the paper, scribbling things on envelopes and downloading stuff for years. I know it’s mine.One question for you: do you know of a website or app that would allow me to store and organize my recipes electronically (versus cutting them out and putting them in a notebook)? More than worth the $1.99, this app will be your very best friend in the kitchen. (Or maybe that just happened to me because of the sheer number of desserts in my app.) You never know – you might end up having a chocolate cake for dinner if you stick to it’s suggestions. (The Desserts section of mine is particularly full, followed closely by Meats.) The app features a search function so you can quickly call up your favorites, and a simple easy layout that can sort recipes via how long it takes to cook – there’s even a randomizer feature called “Suprise me” that will bring up a random recipe which is very fun for playing dinner roulette. Once your recipes are put into the app, they are automatically sorted by category – Dessert, Meat, Entree, and Poultry are just some of the categories the app sorts recipes into for ease of retrieving them later. My fiancee’s great grandmother used “half an eggshell” as a measurement – this allowed us to keep that convention, though I don’t really like the idea of pouring milk into an eggshell. You have to manually enter your own recipes and when you’re adding a recipe, you can choose from all sorts of measurements – from the standard cups and teaspoons, to your own inputted measurements. That brilliant vault for recipes past, present, and future is non other than My Recipe Book.Īvailable for a cheap $1.99 from the App Store, My Recipe Book is a very user-friendly way to store all your recipes and even get more from and other popular recipe sites with the useful “Import From” feature. Well, I finally found a way to save those old recipes forever, and make sure that they’ll never be lost again – even if the old, yellowed recipe card one day crumbles to dust. Since I’m somewhat of a packrat, I’d much rather copy the recipe down somewhere new and preserve that old bit of history in a scrapbook somewhere, then have it continue to sit in the kitchen and get cake batter on it year after year until it’s unreadable.īut papers get lost and rewritten recipes have a way of vanishing from the kitchen while the old ones persist – eternal like some sort of bastion against the future. Handed down from grandmother to mother to daughter across generations (and okay, sometimes grandmother to granddaughter), sometimes these recipes are written on old, yellowed, frail recipe cards with the careful hand of a person long since passed from this world.
In my family, recipes are like holy grails that everyone hopes to one day possess.
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