And I especially like the idea of my great-grandkids flipping through my own box of recipe cards after I’m gone, touching paper my fingers touched and admiring my as yet un-crabbed penmanship.

Sometimes these recipe cards simply require safe keeping in the form of a box or binder, but other times it’s more about preserving the contents and memory rather than the faded paper itself.

When cooking for family gatherings, Penny Pierce usually pulls out a yellowed card with frayed edges to scrutinize the fading recipe for her favorite pie crust. Ms. Pierce, a retired ...

Even some very technologically inclined people still prefer recipes written on paper, whether a page torn from a magazine, an index card from a grandmother or a printout from a website.

Every Wednesday, says Lane, a home economist would clip the recipes from the paper, glue each to an index card, date it and file it. Computerization put an end to that task. The papers’ home ...

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Inside was a treasure indeed: a cache of vintage recipe cards. Old recipes ... and I wondered if the paper would be interested in the old recipes,” Limes recalled. The client, Donna Burtch ...