The Home Cookbook

Overview

How To:

Subscribe to The Home Cookbook Recipes

Add a Recipe

Index a Recipe

Change Recipe Name and\or Index

Create a Shopping List

Add to you Shopping List database

Select ingredients for the Shopping List

Sort the shopping list

Menu Commands:

File Menu

Edit Menu

Recipe Menu

List Menu

Exit Menu

Help Menu

Overview

Software friendly to chefs and all cooks are chefs.

Our software provides you with a system where you can enter recipe information quickly and easily, print recipes in easy to read formats with background designs that you would be proud to have in your own kitchen, and have your shopping list sorted by the markets where you shop.

This system will keep your recipes easily accessible ( now let me see, where did I put my favorite chocolate cake recipe or from which cookbook will I find it in?).  Our own prepared recipes will provide the in-depth food preparation steps you need to actually enjoy pleasing you family, friends and guests.

For those of you who say "I can't cook" or, are sick and tired of having recipes fail, The Home Cookbook™ is for you.

Detailed explanations for food preparation are in The Home Cookbook™ recipes.  Why are our recipes different than those found in recipe books or other software programs?  We are committed and focused to ensure that they include step by step instructions for preparing your meal.  How many times have you been given a recipe or purchased a recipe book only to find yours never comes out like the picture or as described?

Each and every Home Cookbook recipe is kitchen tested for accuracy of ingredients and steps in preparation to ensure you receive the same consistant results each time.  We provide 'HINTS' that will help you with all aspects of the ingredient and preparation process.

Styled recipe printouts of your favorite recipes that fit conveniently in your 3 ring binder.  This feature is provided because not too many people have a PC in their kitchen.

The ability to add single ingredients from your recipe directly to your shopping list with a single key stroke.

Recipe HELP support number for use by registered software cooks if our recipes do no come out as you expected.  This support is only available for Home Cookbook recipes issued by us.

Can hold up to 1,000 recipes.

Ability to sort your shopping list by market.

Use your shopping list for those non-food stores such as hardware, clothing, etc,which enables you to remember all the errands you need to complete.  From your organizer or TO DO LIST, put those stores and items on your shopping list,sort your list by store and you're ready to go!

Note:  I am reminded of a story that Dr. Wayne W. Dyer talks about in his book REAL MAGIC.  Two cooks in the kitchen follow the exact same recipe, item for item, following each and every detail in precise order and using the same oven.  One has a cake that is grand and delicious , the other experiences something quite the opposite--a flop!  Why?  Their minds picture what they want to create.  One has a picture of a positive outcome, knows within that this is going to be a grand cake, and sees the result in advance, even if it is on an unconscious level.  The other has a completely different mind-set, one of doubt and fear, and approaches the entire project from a scarcity image.  Even though the second cook follows the reipe in exact detail, the cake is exactly  what was predicted: " I am not good at this sort of thing, and I know this won't turn out.  Sound like a fairy tale?  It is impossibile for different outcomes, you say, if both follow the same directions.  Our beliefs are invisible ingredients in all of our activities.

The Home Cookbook software is $25 which includes shipping and handling charges.  Our software comes with 12 recipes.  These recipes meet our kitchen quality assurance for accuracy.  If you are satisfied with the package and the service that you have received, you may wish to join our recipe subscription service.

For registered users we have full technical and recipe support on our HELP line at:

Phone\FAX (714) 240-7429

We can be reached by mail at:

MNS Software

P.O. Box 7199

Laguna Niguel, CA.  92607-7199

U.S.A.

FAX us your favorite recipe and if we use it, you will receive one year free subscription to the Home Cookbook recipes.

Send us your comments and suggestions for future releases.

Thank you for purchasing The Home Cookbook™.

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Add a Recipe

To add new recipes, go to Recipe and select Add Recipe.  At this point you will be presented with a screen.  You may move from field to field using your tab key on your keyboard.  The enter key can not be used in the top fields of the screen.

When you get to the ingredient fields you can use both your tab key and enter key to move around the fields.

For more information about the individual fields, go to Add Recipe under the Recipe menu.


Index a Recipe

All recipes fall into one of 16 recipe categorys.  As you enter your recipes you need to choose which of the sixteen index categorys you would like to put your recipe in.  This will help later when you are looking for a particular recipe, you can check by index.  You have the ability to change recipe index and even recipe name if you so decide.


Change Recipe Name and\or Index

There will be times when you will need to revise the name of your recipe, either to make the name more meaningful or due to an error in keying.  You may also wish to move recipes around to different index categorys to your personel taste as you become more familliar with the system.  We have a recipe maintenance screen that will assist you with such changes.

Create a Shopping List

     Items can be put on the shopping list by two different methods.  When you are deciding which recipes to prepare, and as you call up each recipe to check ingredients, you are able to transfer one or all of the ingrtedients that you need to the shooping list.  On the recipe scfreen, there is a buttonn called Add Item to Shopping List.  Select the ingredient that you need to purchase and click on this button and that ingredient is automaticaly added to your shopping list.  For more information on the individual fields, go to Shopping List.


Shopping List command ( List menu )

This screen allows you to build your shopping list.

Ok

OK = Save

Cancel

Cancel any changes that I have made.

Help

Add

Delete

Shopping list item

Market

Qty

Unit

Price

Clear shopping list

Clear item

Add item

Shopping list item

Market

Qty

Unit

Price

Adv

This is the advertised price.


Shopping List Item

This screen has two fields named shopping list item.  They have two different actions.

1.  Near the top of the screen is the 1st shopping list field.  This field has two purposes.  First, to let you enter your recurring household items into a Permenant database that will retain the information until you use the delete button to erase it.  This has the benefit of not having to repeat your entry of those items you shop for all the time.  Second, by clicking on the add button it will add the item you recalled or just added, to the shopping list grid in the center of your screen (your shopping list).

1.1  In addition the related fields of market, qty, unit, and price are stored in this permenant 	       database as well.

2.  In the middle of the screen is the 2nd shopping list item field.  This is a non-permenant shopping list, in

that it can be cleared and will not be retained.  Your shopping list is created from the items shown in this grid.  It will hold up to 48 shopping list items.

Add to your Shopping List database

The top portion of your shopping list screen contains a set of fields that allow you to enter ingredients that you can recall at a later time.  Many of us use the same food item or ingredient and in fact may shop at the same store.  The system maintains a database of the often use ingredients so that you mearly have to

pull down the shopping list item window and select that ingredient; click on it; and click on the add button to add it to your shopping list below.

Select ingredients for the Shopping List

When selecting a recipe that you have entered on the system you can select an individual or manyof its ingredients by clicking on the Add item to shopping list button.  This will copy that item onto your shopping list saving you from haveing to enter it.

Sort the shopping list

You have the ability to sort the shopping list in shopping list item or in market order.


File Menu commands

The File menu offers the following commands:

Import Recipes

Imports recipes from another recipe

 product.

Export Recipes

Exports recipes to another recipe product.

Print

Exit

Exits The Home Cookbook.


Recipe Menu commands

The Recipe Menu offers the following commands:

Add RecipeAdds a new recipe

Index of Recipes

Views and edits an existing recipe

Recipe Maintenance

Changes the recipe name and/or its

index category.


Recipe Maintenance ( Recipe menu )

Recipe Index Maintenance

Recipe Maintenance

OLD Recipe Name

NEW Recipe Name

CHANGE Recipe Index


Add Recipe command (Recipe Menu)

This screen allows you to enter a new recipe to your database.

OK

OK = Save

Cancel

Do not save any changes that I made.

Note

When printing your recipe, it is recommended that you print using Portrait instead of Landscape.  This will present you with a much nicer prinout and fit better in a 3 ring binder.  In windows you can set the default to be Portrait.

Recipe Source

Recipe Name

prep time

hh:mm

elapsed time

hh:mm

oven temp

servings

Index Category

The default index category is Appetizers & Snacks.  You can of course change to whichever index you have available on the the pull down menu.

Insert

Delete

Qty

Unit

Ingredient

You can up to 35 ingredients per recipe.  If you should have more than this, think about breaking your recipe in to two different recipes.

Preperation

This field allows you to put in those keywords that show you what must be done to the ingredient to prepare it for the recipe; sliced, grated, cubed, etc.  For more information see ingredient preperation.

Instructions


Ingredient Preperation

Some of the more standard preperation keywords include:

baked	melted

beaten	packed

boil	peeled

browned	quartered

chopped	shredded

cooked	sliced

crushed	thawed

cubed	toasted

diced	trimmed

drained	whipped

flaked

grated

ground


List Menu commands

This List Menu offers the following commands:

Shopping ListBrings up the shopping list.


Help Menu commands

The Help menu cffers the following commands, which provide you assistance with The Home Cookbook.

Contents

Offers you a table of contents of topics on which you can get help.

Registering The Home Cookbook

Tells how to register The Home Cookbook.

About The Home Cookbook

Displays the version number of The Home Cookbook.


Exit Menu command

Exit

Will close The Home Cookbook application and return to windows.


Exit command (File Menu)

Will close The Home Cookbook application and return to windows.


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