Dimitri wrote:
> I understand your desire to "transcribe" the recipes for posterity,
> however now having said that I think there is something sacrilegious
> about doing so. Looking at the scrapbooks, clippings or the 3x5 cards
> is looking at a piece of living history a piece of the person or people.
> I think when a recipe is copied, transcribed, & printed it loses the
> humanity of the fingerprint of butter or Crisco on the card, or the drop
> of gravy.
>
> Some of my greatest treasures are used cookbooks with a message to the
> owner from the gift giver with stained pages as well as notes in the
> margins or a faded newspaper clipping. The "mess" makes them real.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dimitri

There is one reason to transcribe--or photocopy in addition to keeping
the original. Some of the ink in my manuscripts is very faded....

--
Jean B.