The pain in the neck part is retyping every. single. recipe. by hand.
If you’ve got an ‘all in one’ printer you can scan in paper documents, and of course anything already typed up can just be moved to the new folder.
It will give you something to do until the end of the next presidential term...
I couldn’t even find this recipe in my hand-written file, which is where it was for the longest time — since probably 1980. So I was panicking. I’ve transferred a lot of my favorite recipes to the slave, but just because I kept having to re-do them onto clean cards. It got tiresome after the 5th time or so.
I have a few recipes that I don’t want to give up, like pineapple cookies and butter cake, and chicken quesedillas, and easy lasagna... Well, you get the idea. Those are already in the slave, but when I couldn’t find the hard copy, I wasn’t even sure what to look for: Christmas cake? Fruitless cake? Fruitcake? Spice cake? It was under Christmas Spice Cake! (You want the recipe? Now that I’ve found it, I can email it, it you want.)
Trust me: I have PLENTY to keep me busy until the end of the next presidential term!
My printer is an Epson WF-3640 with two paper trays. It does everything but salute.