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The search for recipes after one receives an assignment can be time consuming but worth while if adequately done. There are many approaches and resources that can be explored. Certainly, there are many old cookbooks and historical novels and textbooks. Mary Kelsey, a noted food and culture expert has replied to a request regarding "historical colonial recipes". Even further back, observations have been reported by Llofgren in a brief report on the work by Sass on as a food historian.
Searching old cookbooks is a rewarding approach to finding recipes on a particular subject. However, it can be time consuming. One quick way to review 100 cookbooks is to look at the 40,000 entries in Recipe X. This would work you quickly through these books. However, as this instructor finds with much of this detail work, summaries, abstracts, databases, and other information collections does not furnish the details and understanding that a step by step, book by book search will do for information gathering. Even if you do an excellent job of collecting recipes, they still must be organized. Lowe has offered some insights into keeping your files organized. However, it is critical to keep in mind the difference between your own personal recipe file versus that you collect for professional reasons. It is expected that there may be some overlap and integration. One way of organizing a massive file is by using a scanner to digitize the recipe as an image file. This will save considerable input time. It also off-sets possible problems with using a conversion program to convert image to letters. This was devised by this author when she inherited those irreplaceable but apparent totally unorganized lifetime file of her Mother's precious recipes that she collected. Many of them were remembered childhood favorites. Certainly, with limited time, the files can be scanned and filed.
These recipes that you find may be adapted. It has been a time honored tradition, that one does not "just acquire" the intellectual property of someone else; however, recipe development is difficult as there are many many many recipes published out there. Although not necessarily a "law", it has been somewhat of a tradition "out there" that recipes should be varied and adapted by at least two ingredients.
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