How do you "keep" your recipes?

[Ohiodislover]

I have a recipe box, and tons of recipe cards. I have a few cookbooks, but have gotten rid of many, after keeping a box under the daybed in my den for 5 years and never looking at them.

I have typed out most of my recipes, and obtained a ton of them online. I have them all on a flash drive.

 

[minkydog]

At the moment I have them saved in a large silver cookie tin, but i'm slowly getting them on my computer with the intention of making them into a cookbook. My kids know that if there's ever a fire somebody needs to grab the silver tin!

 

[Abbie]

I use recipe cards also, and put them in my recipe box. It is getting pretty full, so I will possibly put them in a binder, slipped into the pages that fit into a photo album, with 4x6 spaces to slip them into. I love handwriting my recipes, I think someday my kids and grandkids will enjoy seeing my writing on a recipe. I have just a few recipes handwriten from my dad - he passed away this year and they are precious now. A recipe has to be what my family refers to as a "top tenner" to get a place in the recipe box. If it tastes great, I handwrite it on a recipe card, and I always add the date and a small blurb- something that happened that day, to the top. I have been doing this for 10 years and it is fun to pull out a recipe and see "DS lost a tooth today on the bus", or "DD learned to walk today", "DB and his family were here for dinner", etc - small things we've already forgotten - really adds a personal touch - I'm hoping my kids will all want copies of "the box" someday.

I love this and totally agree about the handwritten recipes. I also have a few from Dad that are precious to me, and more than a few from grandmothers long gone. I love that they are often stained and obviously well-used. As far as how they are organized, I use the 4x6 photo albums (the kind from the dollar store work great) and just slide the recipes in and out as needed.