Tracking Your Recipes

By Author: Tom Straub
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Do you love to cook? An essential aspect to becoming a good cook is using recipes. We often will store those things that are important to us, like how our grandfather would make the best iced tea or the way that our Aunt Christine prepared a delicious turkey, every year. Yet, without keeping track of these recipes, eventually, they will become forgotten and lost over time. If this happens, you will not be able to have a key element that it takes to be a good cook.

You will also gain on an important part of being a good cook, if you keep track of your recipes. Your own cooking ability will be greatly enhanced and the skills that you have attained by following the recipe's instructions, will be practiced and finely tuned.

Here, in the text below, are some tips to get you started.

Taking Notes

Or take for example, how it may become months or years since you may have cooked a recipe and you have forgotten all the ingredients? If you write and maintain detailed notes, you can prevent this ever happening to you. In case you do forget, the recipes will be safely kept in your notes ready to use anytime.

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Index cards have been the traditional method of maintaining recipes and keeping in a file box. It is simple and convenient to jot down your recipe on an index card and then just slip into a box. But, you can easily keep track of your recipes in other ways just as easily. Binders can be very handy to hold recipes and that you can decorate to express your style of cooking. Notebooks are another great choice, and economical.

Why not keep them stored on your computer? Computers have programs available that are designed for recipes. Or, you can simply type in the recipe text and keep it in whatever folder you have named for your storage. You can also send recipes to others through emails by typing it in directly on the email or by attaching the recipe file to the email.

Growing Your Collection

Even if you do not cook that often, as time goes by, you will probably end up gathering many recipes. A good way to manage your collection is to design it in such a way that it can be expanded. That is one of the key points as to why the familiar file box method remains popular. Putting the recipe in the index file is simple. Consider also, that you could do the same thing with a binder or a file on a computer. That provides you with the ability to grow your collection easily as you store another new recipe.

For more information on how to use recipes to help you become a better cook, just visit a cooking website for an ebook on everything you ever wanted to know about cooking, but never dared to ask.