Scrapbooking with Recipes: Ideas for Preserving Kitchen Memories

by Susan M. Banker

Creating scrapbook memories of cherished family food traditions is easy with this complete guide to selecting papers, laying out pages, and scrapbooking basics. Includes vibrant full-colour... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0696217201
• ISBN13: 9780696217203
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Better Homes and Gardens Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.0" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Great Ideas and Easy to use.

This book is just what I needed to inspire me to make Cookbook Scrapbooks for my daughters for Christmas! I love how it encourages me to scan old dish towels, aprons, pictures and incorporate them into my Cookbook! Such a special way to share recipes and family collectibles as well. Great ideas and easy to use!

A Terrific Source of Inspiration

Most of the pages she illustrates are the larger 12x12" size, but the author does give some examples of 5.5x7.25" and 8.5x11" pages, too. The projects are described step-by-step very clearly, and the photos of the pages are clear and bright. Overall, I found this to be a neat book with some really clever ideas. There are things I personally would not do (like use brads and buttons and stuff making the pages bulky and awkward), and I think she's wrong to use original photos and recipes, but that's my opinion. I really loved the idea of using vintage textiles as background art and clip art. It's definitely worth a look!

Great help in preserving those priceless family recipes!

I have been planning to do a family heritage cookbook for some time. This book will help me get this project going! There are wonderful ideas given for scrapbooks of all sizes including 12 x 12 - a size I thought would be difficult to do for this subject. I especially like the encouragement to use copies of recipes in the original handwriting of your family's great cooks. Our family heritage is so intertwined with the foods of our childhood. Preserving these cherished recipes in an archival format is a heartwarming gift for your family.