Recipe Box (Post 195)

Would you like to know how to start a good old fashion recipe box? Here's what you'll need and how to do it -so add this project to your ten cent crazy book.

Some of you have a recipe box, but others have never had one.

If you do already have a recipe box, I would bet (unless you're a great cook) that your recipe box is really old, and either falling apart or overstuffed with tons of pieces of paper sticking out of it with recipes in no kind of order at all.

Ok, so whether you have a recipe box or not this is a great fun, easy project, that you can make for yourself, your newly moved out son or daughter or a wedding gift for a friend.

Something to know-
If you go to the store to buy a recipe box, you will probably not find one.

They used to be in the kitchen section of the store and made out of wood, with a cute little rooster on them.

Now you will have to go to the school supply section and buy a plastic box; it has a lid that snaps shut and holds 3 x 5 or larger index cards- that can be purchased in the same section.
Also, if this box doesn't come with ABC dividers they should be in the same isle as the box or the index cards.

Now you're ready, the next time you're sitting and watching television, you can work on your recipe box.

Get out those old cookbooks and look through them for whatever looks good to you.

On the front of the index card, you should write:

The Name of the recipe at the top

Then list the ingredients down the left front of the card

In the right bottom corner write the oven temperature suggested and the time it will take to cook.
Also put the size of the dish needed.
Example: 350 for 30 min in a 9 x 13 pan.

On the back of the card write the mixing and cooking instructions.

Save the right front of the card for comments, such as (really good or really sweet)

If you don't have old cookbooks to look through, your friends will probably loan you some or you can get recipes from magazines, this blog, television which is full of cooking shows- or of course the Internet is full of recipes.

You can jot down the recipes in your ten cent crazy book and try them out, before actually putting them on a card for your box, because you may not like the recipe, or you may decide it needs more sugar or it needs to be cooked a little longer.

So......sit with your crazy book and scribble recipes all over the place and then put the really good recipes in your new recipe box, and enjoy this project.

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