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A year or so ago.  I had gotten some newspaper clippings from my grandmother (85 yrs old at the time).  My intentions are to take those and put them in a small scrapbook.

I think maybe I would go with the pages maybe a scrapbook version with a bit of the handwritten style font.  Maybe little sayings at the bottom of the pages.  I love to read cook books.

I would create a cookbook of lunch recipes for those who work outdoors and have no access to a refrigerator. My husband skips lunch because he is sick of the deli meat sandwiches and I have not been able to find good recipes that need no refrigeration. I would title my cookbook Lunch For The Outdoor Bunch.

Weekly Solutions... a cook book with a weeks worth of menus and recipes including shopping list. Then keep it going  for the year with holiday menu's and cook outs on a couple of the days, you know .. just to mix it up a bit!.  I often get what I call "Dry Spells"  when I can't think of what sounds good to eat or the time to plan my menu along with the shopping list .. it would be nice if I could pull out a book and wa la!  copy the grocery list and follow it day by day... till the dry spell passes.  I LOVE THIS!

Hi, This one's an easy one to answer, because for the past 20 years, I tried and tested recipes on my family and we never saved the ones we didn't like. And thanks to the computer era, I saved and printed them all out. So, now that I've passed on my cookbook to my daughters, we named it the 2nd Generation Heirloom Cookbook (I, being the first generation and them being the second)

Lisa

I would put in favorite recipe(s) from each family member and a corresponding picture or two of that person or prepared recipe.  I'd list any possible variations for the recipe and share a cute story about the person and/or the recipe when possible.  I would also picture family heirlooms that were (and still are) used in the kitchen.  If possible, I would have that family member sign their respective recipe(s) , to add yet another ingredient of personalization.

I would add in "wisdom recipes;" those old fashioned bits of information that remind people to always add love in their cooking and that tell of the simple things that make a happy home and such.

My cookbook would include "Old but very useful tips" on how to tell if the yeast is good before adding it to bread dough recipes; how to choose ripe fruits; the butcher's meat diagram; product conversion charts; the many uses of baking soda; cleaning tips with club soda, etc.  I would also list websites to helpful online cooking sites so that my book could span through the ages.

My cookbook would even have a "Good to the Last Laugh" section: recipes and/or stories of when food served did not turn out just right and yielded an hilariously unforgetable moment.

I would name my cookbook "Of All The Places I've Ever Served My Guests, It Seems They Like My Kitchen Best!"

I would name my cookibook this because of a plate that hung in my late grandmother's kitchen wall; I would picture it as the cover of my cookbook as well.  When I was a small girl, I asked her about it and she told me that it is true.  Everytime she was hostess to a party at her home, the guests would all marvel at her attention to detail in all of the decorations, rave over her food preparations and thoroughly enjoy the time spent together for the evening, and inevitably they would always end up in her kitchen!  I then understood it all - you could really feel the love in my grandparents' home from the moment you opened the front door, especially in my grandmother's kitchen!  I now have that plate in my own kitchen that reminds me of her and those very special times together!

I'd create a cookbook from the recipes contributed by the REAL family cooks in Kitchen Conversations!  I trust recipes made by cooks that prepare meals in their home kitchens everyday but I am very reticent to try recipes created by corporations.  I believe that is why recipes in places like Taste of Home and Southern Living are so popular.  I've yet to have a failure when trying recipes from either of these places!  I have over 500 cookbooks in my library and add to that each time I visit another city.  There are always cookbooks from Junior Leagues and various organizations in each city and those recipes are little goldmines!

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I thought the Vampire Cookbook was funny, but I had no idea there were way more.I should have know there were Star Wars and Star Trek cookbooks also.

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