Forget-me-Not-Food for the Whole Family
#AD – This is a collaborative post
Nothing beats creating recipes. This way, you get to cook meals that suit your needs every time. Not to mention the satisfying feeling you get when you make something that tastes great. While cookbooks are a great place to start then, you may eventually find that everything you cook comes from your knowledgeable chef brain.
As great as this can be, it does leave you at risk of losing recipes along the way. Cookbooks are pretty hard to lose, after all, and you can always repurchase them if you misplace your favorites. When you’re making from the mind, though, simply jotting down creations might not cut it. Pieces of paper are easy to lose, and the best meals could be out of your reach forever with a simple lapse in attention. Worse, you’ll probably never be able to recreate that same taste afterwards. You certainly won’t be able to pass your creation to future generations!
The good news is that you don’t have to leave your creations at risk like this. In truth, there are a few things you can do to make sure your every recipe stays in the family for generations, and we’re going to look at them here.
Learn them by heart
When you make a cookbook recipe enough times, you come to learn it by heart, and the same rules should apply to your creations. The better you know your recipes without looking, the less chance there is of them doing a vanishing act. You’ll simply be able to jot them down again every time! Whenever you create a new recipe then, do what you can to get it stuck in your mind. Play memory games for exact measurements, or make it enough times that it sticks. Simple things like knowing precisely how a meal tastes when you get it right can help you recreate it next time. Equally, developing an understanding of how to measure ingredients in comparison to each other can take memorization to the next level. These are simple tips, but they make it possible to forever recreate recipes.
Create backups
Of course, memory isn’t always reliable, especially for recipes you don’t often make. In that instance, it pays to remember that we live in an age where creating backups you can access anywhere is easier than ever. As such, it’s always worth typing your recipes up and considering ways to get them into the cloud. It may be that you want to invest in a cloud for this purpose alone. You could even email recipes to your account using iCloud email on Mac to create a kind of double backup. Then, you can 100% guarantee that you’ll be able to pass those recipes to future generations at the click of a button. That’s especially useful if you want to pass your recipes to your kids or grandkids. This is their language, after all! A cloud-based recipe book will certainly last longer than an old notebook that passes between family members.
Sharing is caring
Ultimately, there are few better ways to preserve recipes than sharing them, even in this modern age. Most methods have room for memory lapses, whether in your recipes themselves or your cloud password, but sharing is a different matter. By helping your friends or family members to develop a decent understanding of your favorite creations, you can pass them on straight away. As well as ensuring maximum enjoyment from your creations straight off the bat, this ensures your recipes become family traditions, thus making it near impossible that you’ll ever lose them.
Start a blog
Blogging, and even vlogging, is now a great way to share memories, and there are some fantastic recipe-based blogs out there at the moment. Like storing your creations in the cloud, this is a guaranteed way to preserve your best recipes for all time. What’s more, publishing on such a public forum means going deeper than just sharing them with family and friends. You’ll soon find that even strangers start enjoying and sharing your recipes with people they know. This can lead to a slowly building momentum for your every creation, guaranteeing that no one can forget them in a hurry. Who knows, you might even publish a cookbook of your own one day if this goes well!
A final word
Preserving recipes for all time isn’t easy, but there are various ways to do it. In this modern age, technology is especially useful for guaranteeing your creations remain in tact no matter what.
