In praise of recipe cards

Do you remember the good ol' days when people recorded their recipes on index cards and zucchini was spelled with only one "c"? (Actually, we'll have to double-check that last fact.)

While recipe cards may be following the same flightless flight path as the Dodo Bird into extinction, their memory lives on thanks to - well, how can we say it - some kooks with cameras. Good kooks, though, our kind of kooks! The type of eccentric people who think that family food traditions are worth holding onto even if it means sitting down for a whole afternoon and shooting picture after picture of Mom's entire recipe archive and then posting them all to the internet.

Here are two recipe card slide shows we found posted on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kdorff/sets/1512108/show/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/phil_g/sets/412209/show/

So now a question for you: how do you hold onto "keeper" recipes in our disposable, digital age? Kooky minds want to know.

Photo courtesy of Gisara