Old Recipes Become New Recipes for Healthier Eating
In my house the quite is so loud I can hardly hear myself think! Everyone is gone and now I am left with left overs (in the freezer) and lots of ideas of what I will do different next year. But for 2010 I am going to eat healthier and start changing my old recipes to reflect a healthier diet.
Yes, you can change Grandmother's recipe. Yes, you make it more modern and make it fit your family but never discard the original so that it can be made a holidays as it has been for years. You may want to have the original recipe on the right side of your cookbook and then have the update version on the left. Label it as such too. You want these recipes to be used and if they are not updated it could mean no one in your family make make them. That would mean in one generation a bit of your family tradition will be lost too!
Updating recipes may mean changing the times for convection ovens. It might mean using your Cuisinart versus a hand grinder. It could mean using olive oil versus vegetable oil or even shortening rather than lard. If the recipe is too hard to make it will not get made. So if you know how to simply it do so or you can attempt to recreate it with your update new techniques. As long as it still taste similar to the original, why not.
A cookbook that does not get used is just a dust catcher as my mother would say. Why put all the time and effort to create a cookbook that will stay on the shelf. Take the bit of time to update those recipes and let them be cooked in a modern kitchen. And as you know if you add a story or two at least the will get read!
Yes, you can change Grandmother's recipe. Yes, you make it more modern and make it fit your family but never discard the original so that it can be made a holidays as it has been for years. You may want to have the original recipe on the right side of your cookbook and then have the update version on the left. Label it as such too. You want these recipes to be used and if they are not updated it could mean no one in your family make make them. That would mean in one generation a bit of your family tradition will be lost too!
Updating recipes may mean changing the times for convection ovens. It might mean using your Cuisinart versus a hand grinder. It could mean using olive oil versus vegetable oil or even shortening rather than lard. If the recipe is too hard to make it will not get made. So if you know how to simply it do so or you can attempt to recreate it with your update new techniques. As long as it still taste similar to the original, why not.
A cookbook that does not get used is just a dust catcher as my mother would say. Why put all the time and effort to create a cookbook that will stay on the shelf. Take the bit of time to update those recipes and let them be cooked in a modern kitchen. And as you know if you add a story or two at least the will get read!
Posted by Hella at 1/4/2010 12:19 PM 
Categories: Cookbook Writing, Add Hints in Your Cookbook, New stuff as I learn, family recipe cookbook, Create a Family Recipe Cookbook, You can change those recipes
Tags: cooking traditions family cookbooks cookbook writing family favorite recipes creating a cookbook
Categories: Cookbook Writing, Add Hints in Your Cookbook, New stuff as I learn, family recipe cookbook, Create a Family Recipe Cookbook, You can change those recipes
Tags: cooking traditions family cookbooks cookbook writing family favorite recipes creating a cookbook
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