On Mar 12, 8:16*pm, Carl Navarro > wrote:
> Here's the deal. *My mom passed away last month and I got all of her
> recipie books. *I don't have a clue what to do, so maybe someone here
> can advise me.
>
> I can scan each page, about a 3-5 minute job, but I don't know if I
> should or how to index them. *I have posted 3 sample scans on my
> website. *One is Yorkshire pudding, one is a couple of Frozen fruit
> salad recipies, along with dips and stuff like that, and one is from
> her cookie recipies page, with Orange Frosted Pumpkin cookies as the
> main reason I scanned it :-)
>
> Anyway, please grab them if you can and tell me what you think. *As
> far as I can tell, they were collected from 1945 to the early '50's.
> Some of them show the (Chicago) Herald-American test kitchen on the
> bottom. *She kept them in old brown College notebooks and, yes, some
> of them are pasted 16 recipies per page into these books. *
>
> I'd like to scan them and save them to pdf files for my family. *Or
> don't they do that anymore with the internet?
>
> Here's the link *:http://public.carl.airpost.net/food
>
> Carl Navarro

I checked out the Yorkshire page and, aside from the fact that your
mom's recipe differs slightly from mine, it looks clear to me. I have
an old iMac, not a HD screen, and my eyes are not as good as they used
to be (though parts of me are still marvelous.)
;-)
Lynn in Fargo