Create a scrapbook of old family recipes

“As I mentioned in my Happy New year post – my sisters and I have been working on a Family Cookbook Scrapbook for two years. It started as a gift from me to my sister, Roberta, in Atlanta. She loves pumpkins, so I gathered a bunch of pumpkin recipes and scrapbooked them into a binder for her. I gave it to her at Thanksgiving 2012 and we decided to keep adding to the binder all of the Fall / Pumpkin / Thanksgiving recipes from all different family members. Even though this is a work in progress, we took what we had done and made color copies for all of our family members. This was a great Christmas present! We know we still have many family members to get recipes from, but now that they can see the compiled results – we hope it will inspire them to give us more recipes!”

“My mom did a cookbook/binder full of all our family recipes for my brother and I many Christmases ago. I still use mine all the time. She photocopied all the cards so my grandmother’s (and other family members’) handwritten notes are still on the recipes. I love it!”