Using a camera to save/recover old recipes

[Mike Nolan]

My hygienist told me she's been using her camera to take pictures of old faded hand-written recipes then playing with the darkness settings to bring up the contrast on lines that have faded to the point where they can't be read. Worth trying if you've got a bunch of recipes written out years ago.

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[BakerAunt]

My husband has some handwritten recipes from his mother and grandmother, so I will try photographing them in order to preserve them. I can read these well: the issue is that there are not the kind of directions that recipes today have. I'll look at them again when we are back in Indiana.

My mom was a "modern" woman: she liked to type her recipes. As for her mother: I don't recall her ever writing down a recipe.

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