Copycat Dinners Recipes - Favorite Family Recipes (2024)

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How to preserve family recipes? ›

While cooking, put recipes in clear polyester film sleeves to protect them from food spills and greasy fingerprints. Another option is to use a preservation-quality loose-leaf binder style album filled with polyester page protectors into which the recipes can be filed and easily accessed.

Each dish we make is a tangible link that connects us to traditions, ingredients and cooking techniques of our ancestors. By preserving family recipes, we safeguard our identity as a family and as a person.

Just smelling a homecooked meal, especially one based on a family recipe, can conjure up fond memories. When you enjoy family recipes, you're honoring your family's history and culture. Culinary historian and bestselling author Sarah Lohman believes in the importance of recipes handed down from generations.

Recipe Keeper is the easy to use, all-in-one recipe organizer, shopping list and meal planner available across all of your devices. Enter your recipes with as much or as little information as you like.

Create a Filing System. If you tend to save recipes from magazines as well as handwritten recipe cards, sort them into a three-ring binder. Use tab dividers and plastic page protectors for both full sheets (for pages from a magazine) and divided sheets (for 3-by-5-inch recipe cards).

Studies have tied shared family meals to increased re- siliency and self-esteem in children, higher academic achievement, a healthier relationship to food, and even reduced risk of substance abuse and eating disor- ders.

Family recipes are a way of keeping our loved ones alive while we dice, stir, simmer and bake!

Old family recipes can be protected and preserved in archival polyethylene bags, which can be stored in acid-free boxes to help preserve them for generations to come.

How to collect family recipes? ›

Call family members and ask them to write down their recipes and mail them to you, and then you can share them to other relatives. Once you've collected enough recipes, you can create a family cookbook. For a printed cookbook, determine which recipes to use and how measurements will be written.