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I like to digitize old cookbooks, either by scanning or photographing pages like this. Or, I'll transcribe the recipes. Then there they go, out on the Web, instead of sitting on my shelf doing nothing.
I like to digitize old cookbooks, either by scanning or photographing pages like this. Or, I'll transcribe the recipes. Then there they go, out on the Web, instead of sitting on my shelf doing nothing.
Pretty neat how you can read about the old ways they DoD stuff. The things they mention you can no longer find. The things you have to look up to see what it is.
Mine is this one. It has a bunch of French techniques.
My mom was in some gourmet cooking clubs in the 70s - 90s and she collected a lot of oddball cookbooks. Some of them are from local womens groups like faculty wives; some were from churches. These are comb-bound and I have one of those binding machines, so I can open the binding and take out individual sheets to go through the pass-through scanner, then put the sheets back in the book..
I started this thread but it never really took off: