| Have you ever seen your grandmother cook a | | | | You can incorporate heirloom recipes into an album in |
| favorite recipe by following along a handwritten recipe | | | | many different ways. First, you could make a recipe |
| that's scratched out on a worn and faded index card, | | | | scrapbook. Include only recipes in the album, and each |
| or on the back of something else? These are called | | | | page might reflect an individual recipe or maybe |
| heritage recipes, and scrapbooking is a great way to | | | | several recipes handed down by the same family |
| preserve these precious pieces of your family's past. | | | | member. Recipes can be used on individual page |
| They make great elements for your scrapbook pages. | | | | layouts in a traditional family album in many different |
| Whether they are on an index card or as part of a | | | | ways. An obvious choice is including a recipe alongside |
| letter from a mother to a daughter or any other | | | | a page about your grandmother. Holiday pages are |
| medium, heritage recipes and scrapbooking seem to | | | | opportunities to add a recipe page element. Recipe |
| go hand in hand. Many scrappers are finding unique | | | | cards can be highlighted with a picture of your family |
| and personal ways to incorporate these small but | | | | having a Thanksgiving meal. Handwritten holiday cookie |
| important parts of their family's history into their page | | | | recipes make unique page elements for your |
| layouts. | | | | Christmas layouts. |
| One of the reasons you might consider heritage | | | | If you are going to incorporate heritage recipes in |
| recipes and scrapbooking together is that heritage | | | | scrapbooking for your own family album, be sure to |
| recipes are usually handwritten. Unless you have | | | | use the proper elements and embellishments for your |
| saved letters or other personal items from your | | | | pages. Most heritage recipes are very old, so consider |
| grandmother and great-grandmother, you may not | | | | giving your page an antique look and feel. Use worn |
| have anything else in her handwriting. These pieces of | | | | and aged newspaper pages, or elements from the era |
| her past are probably very important to you now, as | | | | in which this person lived. That might mean rotary dial |
| you can really picture her as you glance over them. | | | | phones, or even horse-drawn carriages. Anything and |
| Handwriting is very personal and even personality can | | | | everything that is from that same time in history will |
| show through in a handwritten page. Heritage recipes | | | | really make your heritage recipes and scrapbooking |
| and scrapbooking pages that you save them on can | | | | pages seem as if they are pulled together and |
| also be passed on from generation to generation. It's | | | | professional. Be sure that you also use the words and |
| unlikely that our computer age will go in reverse so | | | | phrases as page accents that are appropriate for any |
| your daughters and granddaughters may not need to | | | | type of recipes, such as "baked with love," or "warms |
| use these actual note cards themselves if they decide | | | | the heart." By using all of these different tips and |
| to try these recipes, but having them preserved in an | | | | techniques, you will find that your heritage recipes from |
| album really gives them an honorable place in your | | | | your grandmother or great-grandmother really have a |
| family's legacy. | | | | place of honor in your family. |