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

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

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.

Why bother scanning them at all? Your mother had a quaint old fashioned
way of looking at her recipes-she turned the pages. Why not just do that
too in honor of Mom?

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:45:02 -0400, Goomba >
wrote:

>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.
>
>Why bother scanning them at all? Your mother had a quaint old fashioned
>way of looking at her recipes-she turned the pages. Why not just do that
>too in honor of Mom?

I'd love to, but as long as my step-father and sister are still alive,
I can't keep them :-)

Carl, I only got them for a month or two

Carl Navarro wrote:

> I'd love to, but as long as my step-father and sister are still alive,
> I can't keep them :-)
>
> Carl, I only got them for a month or two

Suggestion: Go to ebay, a used bookseller, ANYONE that can give you a
reasonable value for the books. Offer that amount to the step-father
and/or sister. Just buy the rights from her estate to keep them for
yourself. At least they will still be in the family.

--Lin

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:56:10 -0700, Lin >
wrote:

>Carl Navarro wrote:
>
>> I'd love to, but as long as my step-father and sister are still alive,
>> I can't keep them :-)
>>
>> Carl, I only got them for a month or two
>
>Suggestion: Go to ebay, a used bookseller, ANYONE that can give you a
>reasonable value for the books. Offer that amount to the step-father
>and/or sister. Just buy the rights from her estate to keep them for
>yourself. At least they will still be in the family.

Actually, they're mine when my step-father doesn't need them any more.
I'm just trying to do the right thing and make them available to the
family now. I would NEVER part with them. It represents a lot of
years and hard work that my mother spent collecting them.

Fortunately she marked a lot of pages with recipies that happened to
be my favorites. I just wish she had been in better health to let me
copy them when she was alive. The last 6 months were not pleasant.

Carl

Carl Navarro wrote:

> Fortunately she marked a lot of pages with recipies that happened to
> be my favorites. I just wish she had been in better health to let me
> copy them when she was alive. The last 6 months were not pleasant.

I'm sorry for your loss and her passing. I do hope the book sharing
works out.

As you may have picked up from another thread, cookbook pages that are
dog eared. covered in cooking goo and drippings are a best bet for often
used and time honored recipes!

--Lin

On Thu 12 Mar 2009 09:18:28p, Carl Navarro told us...

> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:56:10 -0700, Lin >
> wrote:
>
>>Carl Navarro wrote:
>>
>>> I'd love to, but as long as my step-father and sister are still alive,
>>> I can't keep them :-)
>>>
>>> Carl, I only got them for a month or two
>>
>>Suggestion: Go to ebay, a used bookseller, ANYONE that can give you a
>>reasonable value for the books. Offer that amount to the step-father
>>and/or sister. Just buy the rights from her estate to keep them for
>>yourself. At least they will still be in the family.
>
> Actually, they're mine when my step-father doesn't need them any more.
> I'm just trying to do the right thing and make them available to the
> family now. I would NEVER part with them. It represents a lot of
> years and hard work that my mother spent collecting them.
>
> Fortunately she marked a lot of pages with recipies that happened to
> be my favorites. I just wish she had been in better health to let me
> copy them when she was alive. The last 6 months were not pleasant.
>
> Carl
>

Under the circumstances I can see your need to scan them. You could scan
and then print as many copies as you need to share. Or, if you want to
catalog them, you could purchase software like PaperPort which allows you
to scan the documents directly into the software. Within the software you
can create as many folders (with names you choose) as you need in order to
categorize them. You might create a folder for each book, and then create
subfolders under each book folder for the type of recipe. I use PaperPort
for all my scanned documents and find it very convenient for organizing and
indexing everything.

--
Wayne Boatwright

"One man's meat is another man's poison"
- Oswald Dykes, English writer, 1709.

Carl Navarro wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:56:10 -0700, Lin >
> wrote:
>
>> Carl Navarro wrote:
>>
>>> I'd love to, but as long as my step-father and sister are still alive,
>>> I can't keep them :-)
>>>
>>> Carl, I only got them for a month or two
>> Suggestion: Go to ebay, a used bookseller, ANYONE that can give you a
>> reasonable value for the books. Offer that amount to the step-father
>> and/or sister. Just buy the rights from her estate to keep them for
>> yourself. At least they will still be in the family.
>
> Actually, they're mine when my step-father doesn't need them any more.
> I'm just trying to do the right thing and make them available to the
> family now. I would NEVER part with them. It represents a lot of
> years and hard work that my mother spent collecting them.
>
> Fortunately she marked a lot of pages with recipies that happened to
> be my favorites. I just wish she had been in better health to let me
> copy them when she was alive. The last 6 months were not pleasant.
>
> Carl
>
I just want to say kudos to you for treasuring these. I have many
notebooks, dating back to when I was in my teens. I'd like to
think my daughter won't just throw them away when I die.

I also have my mother's notebooks (in part because they were hers,
and in part because I understand the love and the effort that went
into them), a notebook that belonged to my paternal grandmother
(reputedly an awful cook), and some loose recipes from my maternal
grandmother.

--
Jean B.

On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:18:28 -0400, Carl Navarro >
wrote:

>On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:56:10 -0700, Lin >
>wrote:
>
>>Carl Navarro wrote:
>>
>>> I'd love to, but as long as my step-father and sister are still alive,
>>> I can't keep them :-)
>>>
>>> Carl, I only got them for a month or two
>>
>>Suggestion: Go to ebay, a used bookseller, ANYONE that can give you a
>>reasonable value for the books. Offer that amount to the step-father
>>and/or sister. Just buy the rights from her estate to keep them for
>>yourself. At least they will still be in the family.
>
>Actually, they're mine when my step-father doesn't need them any more.
>I'm just trying to do the right thing and make them available to the
>family now. I would NEVER part with them. It represents a lot of
>years and hard work that my mother spent collecting them.
>
>Fortunately she marked a lot of pages with recipies that happened to
>be my favorites. I just wish she had been in better health to let me
>copy them when she was alive. The last 6 months were not pleasant.
>
>Carl

Given the way your mom spent so much effort making the book up, I'd
just scan it as-is and print out the pages as exact duplicates and
then you can assemble a faux-book in a looseleaf binder and it'll be
as close as possible to the original. A recipe book like that is a
treasure.

I've got mama's recipes - her recipe book was hand-typed and when we
got a computer she retyped the whole thing and saved the files... I'm
very glad to have the recipes (and it's super-easy to share the
recipes with other people because all i have to do is cut-and-paste)
but they don't have as much character as yours.

In article >,
Lin > wrote:

> Carl Navarro wrote:
>
> > I'd love to, but as long as my step-father and sister are still alive,
> > I can't keep them :-)
> >
> > Carl, I only got them for a month or two
>
> Suggestion: Go to ebay, a used bookseller, ANYONE that can give you a
> reasonable value for the books. Offer that amount to the step-father
> and/or sister. Just buy the rights from her estate to keep them for
> yourself. At least they will still be in the family.
>
> --Lin

LOLOLOL!! "Just buy the rights from her estate to keep them for
yourself." Would that it would be that easy, Lin. If whoever they
reverted to (the ownership) *doesn't want to sell them right now*,
there's no deal to be made. Have you ever shared an estate with
anyone? No? Lucky girl!!

I could be off base but my sense of what the OP has said thus far
amounts to the surviving husband wanting to hang on to them until he
croaks. Or maybe the son was left out of any inheritance of them
because "guys don't cook." We know the folly of that statement but
you'd be amazed at the number of people who still believe it, especially
older women who can't relate because they never were involved with a man
who could cook.

Just my fi'ty cents worth.
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://web.me.com/barbschaller
"What you say about someone else says more
about you than it does about the other person."

Carl Navarro wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:45:02 -0400, Goomba >
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> Why bother scanning them at all? Your mother had a quaint old fashioned
>> way of looking at her recipes-she turned the pages. Why not just do that
>> too in honor of Mom?
>
> I'd love to, but as long as my step-father and sister are still alive,
> I can't keep them :-)
>
> Carl, I only got them for a month or two
>
>
Have you considered scanning with OCR and using a cookbook program like
Master Cook or Living Cookbook?

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south-Texas

"Carl Navarro" > wrote in message
...
> 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 like Wayne's idea with the program he uses. I can totally see why you'd
want copies of these recipes your mom saved. May I make one suggestion and
you may have thought of it yourself... I put a piece of paper over the top
of the scanned object. That way the negative feeder on the lid of my
scanner isn't included with my scan. Just makes it easier for me if I don't
have to crop things like that out later. Especially if one is scanning a
lot it saves a step.

Good luck and enjoy the memories,

Lynne

On Mar 12, 9:16*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

How many pages are you talking about? If less than a couple hundred,
I'd probably copy each page on a copier, and then scan those, because
they would automatically feed right through, and the copies would be
clear and without dog-ears, etc. However, I will admit, I'm not "up"
on new gadgetry....

N.

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

Carl,
My condolences for the passing of your mom.

Why not scan and organize in the same order that she had them in? Or are
you trying to come up with a filing system that makes sense to you?