Getting Started
In making my cookbook I have looked to several cookbooks and they have helped to give me some inspiration in my design. There are just so many different things one can do, especially to suit one's own style! I have been indecisive in how I want my cookbook to look, but I have finally created a cover design and format I like. With my cookbook I wanted to keep it simple and clean, not too fancy, but still creative with a look towards a farm style.
I was so excited when I typed up my first recipe! I had a few problems with typing because sometimes the recipes didn't quite fit on the page like I wanted them to. Sometimes the recipe would start trailing onto the next page, but I wanted it all to stay on one page. I find it annoying when I'm using a cookbook and the whole recipe is not on one page right in front of me. So I had thought about changing the font size to make it smaller to make it all fit, but then it was all too small. I ended up just shoving the recipes that were too big to their own page, and combining recipes that were smaller together on one page. I also had trouble in deciding on how to create a way to divide up the different types of categories of food. I wanted to find a way that was aesthetically pleasing and not too much with added pictures. I decided to type up a heading and apply an effect to it as well as add a border to it. Those were mainly the only problems I have faced so far, but we will see what the future brings!
I had made a tentative schedule but I am a little behind, which is fine though because I have everything gathered. My schedule says that I will type up recipes for Weeks 2, 3, 4, and 5 so I have a lot of typing ahead! Week 6 I will be adding my finishing touches, editing, and printing my final copy of my cookbook.
For my cookbook I have gathered close to 200 recipes, give or take a few. Many of these recipes I have found from recipes handed down in handwritten papers, worn old cookbooks, and new ones my Mother has introduced to our selection of recipes. Something I am very excited about in going about this project is learning about the different foods that have been cooked to feed my family through all of these years and how they have been prepared. I find it amazing at how they are still used today by my Mother and other family members today. I also think it is really neat to look through the stacks of gently handled and well cared for handwritten recipes by my Great-grandmothers and Grandmother. I love to see their old, carefully written, cursive style writing on the pieces of aged paper.
My cookbook is coming along very nicely and I am pleased. It's just time consuming in typing up all of those recipes, but well worth the time doing so. Each time I type up and handle the recipes, I think back to these lovely women to when they would use them. It gives me such a great sense of closeness to them. I still have much work to be done on my cookbook, but I have great motivation to keep me going.
I was so excited when I typed up my first recipe! I had a few problems with typing because sometimes the recipes didn't quite fit on the page like I wanted them to. Sometimes the recipe would start trailing onto the next page, but I wanted it all to stay on one page. I find it annoying when I'm using a cookbook and the whole recipe is not on one page right in front of me. So I had thought about changing the font size to make it smaller to make it all fit, but then it was all too small. I ended up just shoving the recipes that were too big to their own page, and combining recipes that were smaller together on one page. I also had trouble in deciding on how to create a way to divide up the different types of categories of food. I wanted to find a way that was aesthetically pleasing and not too much with added pictures. I decided to type up a heading and apply an effect to it as well as add a border to it. Those were mainly the only problems I have faced so far, but we will see what the future brings!
I had made a tentative schedule but I am a little behind, which is fine though because I have everything gathered. My schedule says that I will type up recipes for Weeks 2, 3, 4, and 5 so I have a lot of typing ahead! Week 6 I will be adding my finishing touches, editing, and printing my final copy of my cookbook.
For my cookbook I have gathered close to 200 recipes, give or take a few. Many of these recipes I have found from recipes handed down in handwritten papers, worn old cookbooks, and new ones my Mother has introduced to our selection of recipes. Something I am very excited about in going about this project is learning about the different foods that have been cooked to feed my family through all of these years and how they have been prepared. I find it amazing at how they are still used today by my Mother and other family members today. I also think it is really neat to look through the stacks of gently handled and well cared for handwritten recipes by my Great-grandmothers and Grandmother. I love to see their old, carefully written, cursive style writing on the pieces of aged paper.
My cookbook is coming along very nicely and I am pleased. It's just time consuming in typing up all of those recipes, but well worth the time doing so. Each time I type up and handle the recipes, I think back to these lovely women to when they would use them. It gives me such a great sense of closeness to them. I still have much work to be done on my cookbook, but I have great motivation to keep me going.
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