Collecting all your recipes!

A family memory cookbook can be frustrating when you are still waiting on relatives to furnish you with their recipes? It can not be completed until you have all the recipes! It can be hard to get other people to do what and when you want.

  1. Did you give the relatives a deadline?
  2. If you have followed up with a phone?
  3. Have you started to marshal other relatives to call to get actions?
  4. Have you tried bribery?
  5. When all else fails, try guilt. It works.
One way to guilt a relative into furnishing you there recipe is to tell them you will take a recipe from the web that is similar and say it is there. Their recipe will be in the cookbook even if they don't furnish you the correct one. And then the family will never know how good their recipe really was. Or something similar.You might not know their hot buttons so be ready to try several. Ask other relatives what they think will work. Sometimes letting other relatives just know that they are holding completion of your family heirloom cookbook is enough. Each family is different as is each relative.

I knew of one family that left the page blank and later filled it in with a photo and it said that Aunt Olivia never got around to furnishing her recipe for pecan rolls. Please let her know when do the cookbook in two years we all would like them included. Now that is guilt!

In the world of cookbook writing you may need to do what ever it takes....

Posted by Hella at 2/1/2010 1:24 PM
Categories: Cookbook Writing, family recipe cookbook, Create a Family Recipe Cookbook
Tags: family cookbooks cookbook writing family memory cookbooks creating a cookbook. cookbook themes create a cookbook
 

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