Many moons ago I worked as assistant PRO for the local constabulary. My first task every morning was to scan the national and local newspapers for any items I considered of interest to the chief constable, cut them out, paste them on to A4 sheets of paper, label them and take them up to him to read. (How almost laughable that sounds now in the face of modern technology!)
What I found was that, at the same time, I could extract from the newspapers any recipes which interested me.
And this habit has never left me and my son, Neil, and I mostly cook from my ringbinder full of recipes for mains and puddings, probably a tad idiosyncratically filed but we can always find what we need.
I loved that job but one part of it I hated and that was keeping the force magazine account of about £50. (stamps, payments of 1/- per copy etc etc - yes I worked in old money)
Figures are not my thing and it never balanced.
(I expect all you accountants out there are laughing up your sleeves!) Once, the chief inspector, to whom I was responsible for this part of my job, called me up to his office and said (quite jovially) 'You've made a b*****'s muddle of this, haven't you?' I can't actually remember what I replied (probably nothing!) but the upshot of it was that he promptly said that he would sort the account in future, for which I was more than grateful and happy to do the compilation and editing of each edition which I really enjoyed. http://365project.org/quietpurplehaze/add-ins/2013-09-02
Lovely shot Hazel - recipe sounds tasty!! Great story to go with it!!
As a Manager in the Credit Assessment dept of Corporate Banking one of my early morning jobs was to check out the Financial Times and cut out any bad news on Banks/Coporates/Countries and then that would start any urgent research for that day. I never found any lovely recipes in the FT!! LOL!!
A lovely story Hazel & if only businesses worked in such a sensible & pleasant way today it would be more of a pleasure. Your ring binder book sounds more organised than my pieces of paper stuffed in a book.
As a Manager in the Credit Assessment dept of Corporate Banking one of my early morning jobs was to check out the Financial Times and cut out any bad news on Banks/Coporates/Countries and then that would start any urgent research for that day. I never found any lovely recipes in the FT!! LOL!!
Pam, there's no way I could have managed your job - and not only because there were no recipes in the FT!!!
This one is yet to try, Denise - got it out of TheTimes magazine recently!
You had the perfect subject, Beryl!
It seems quite a few of us have our own personalised 'cookery books'!
Well, as I mentioned, my filing system is not great! It helps for easy recognition that most recipes have pictures with them.....
HeeHee!