How to Share and Save Favorite Recipes

We all have learned to share and save at an early age. Perhaps sharing and saving valuable things, is in itself primal instinct. Have you ever wondered what the first recipe might have been, and the story behind it? It would be great if such a record existed!

Today, a simple keyword search can return thousand of recipes, but can it return your great-grandmothers', the one that was lost, misplaced or destroyed years ago? I can remember my mothers' cookbooks, with notes and memos within the pages which reminded her of this or that, and penciled with ratings based on the enjoyment of others.

I don't have them now, but I wish I did! Today with our home computers, and the vast number of sites that enable users to upload and download, print and save, records of most anything can be saved for posterity.

If you would like to record your family recipes it is pretty easy to start. The Web offers a variety of sites where once registered, using your user name and password, you may review, post and save your favorite recipes. Doing a simple search, something like, 'save share recipes' returned over 400,000 results.

It is a good idea to also save your recipes to disc. Create a general folder that can contain sub-folders of different categories such as appetizers, soup, or salads for example. You can even expand these with categories such as Holiday Dinners, Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas; you can create you folders as you wish. Save your recipes to the folder you created and then save to a high speed CD disc.

Your family recipes will be organized and safe and can be viewed, printed and edited as needed. Children and adults might enjoy compiling the best recipes into a Holiday E -Cookbook complete with photos and graphics that could be emailed to family members as holiday gifts. A search for e-book software will return sites that will explain how to create an e-book and some will offer free trial software.

Saving and sharing family recipes can be a rewarding and fun experience for the whole family. The recipes saved or shared can be simple or elaborate and can be viewed around the world with the click of the mouse. However, if your recipe contains 11 secret herbs and spices...you may want to hire a security company.