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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
I still keep my recipes on 4x6 cards, in a box. I don't want my electronic devices next to my cooking and splashing, thank you very much! Plus the old Betty Crocker cookbook still feels like family to me. But them I'm approaching the point when I have to admit to Old.
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We're hybrid here.
My SO is a major foodie, and there are things like the Larousse Gastronomique volumes in the pBook library, as well as a variety of other references on food and cooking. She was also a happy user of an old MSDOS program called Meal Master, which was a specialized recipe database program. It could export recipes in a standard format, and there was a fair bit of recipe swapping online passing Meal Master exports back and forth. (MM format also got picked up as the interchange format by other recipe database apps.)
So we have stuff in both formats, but the SO treats recipes as general guidelines, not precise directions to be followed exactly, and tweaks as she goes. (She has the knowledge, skill, and experience to do that sort of on the fly changes - "The recipe specifies
this ingredient, but it's not available, and the farmer's market has
that in stock which will substitute nicely...")
I'm well fed, thank you...
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Dennis