It has been worth every hour that has gone into it. Anecdotal notes attached to recipes give them a personal touch readers can't help but enjoy. We decided to feature pictures from our grandparents' lives so that all family members might have copies. And in the Norman family's cookbook, the chapter dividers feature embroidery patterns from Grandma Norman's sewing box, according to granddaughter Connie Buresh of West Union. Getting cookbooks into print can be accomplished in a number of ways.
Some families use professional publishers.
Others work on home computers to type, spell check, categorize and index the recipes, which are then saved on a disk. Lisa Cooley of Cedar Rapids went through this process and printed out one copy of the book on her home printer. Then we took the one copy to a local print shop. They printed and collated the desired amount of copies. To save money, we took them home, attached the covers, stapled, folded and pressed them.