Baking again!

I shared some of my baking secrets with Deilia this weekend - we baked cinnamon raisin bread. The whole house smells wonderful! (It's been years since I did any 'from scratch' baking - will probably do more since my bread maker bit the dust.) The bread recipe was one that I included in the family cookbook that I compiled for my daughter-in-laws for Christmas. (When Mother heard what I was doing, she wanted a copy,too.) Last summer I started typing all of my 'old standby' recipes from my card file, added my favorite recipes from different cookbooks in my collection, threw in specialties from different family members, and ended up with a pretty decent cookbook! I printed it on cardstock so it would be more durable and put it in the half-sized three-ring binders. I saved my page template, so, I can easily print pages for us when we find recipes that we want to add.