Landon wrote:

extraneous


I inherited Mom's 2 volume Gourmet hardbound cookbooks, published in the
late 1950s.

There was no formatting whatsoever. They didn't list ingredients
followed by instruction steps. It basically read more like a story!

Also, instructional steps weren't ordered by precedence. You had to come
to terms with what to first and what to do last to make it most time
efficient.

I got "The Art of French Cooking" by Julia Child and friends for 25
cents at a yard sale. The biggest problem is the index of recipes which
was mostly in French and moi, not speaking French found it impossible to
find lots of recipes. WTF's a mother to do?!?

My computer recipes are merely text files. Well organized chaos, like
I'm used to! I've pdf'd them to the iPhone. I've also got a dozen
cookbooks of recipes on the iPhone that I've never used except for
hunger boredom. The best is the allrecipes cookbook. They allow
hamburgers for dessert! ))

Andy