Personal Recipe Collection Cookbook
Personal Recipe Collection Cookbook
I. INTRODUCTION:
A. (Anecdote) Several years ago, I made a meal for my daughter of all her favorite
foods. It had been years since she had some of these dishes and the meal was filled
with good food and memories. After dinner, she asked for the recipes, so that she
could make the dishes at home for her family. Well! Easier said than done! The
recipes were contained in several different books, and some were on little scraps of
paper, stuffed into various other cookbooks.
B. (Series of rhetorical questions) Does anyone in your family make a special dish that
you consider your favorite? Have you learned how to make it yet? How would you
feel if you could never have this dish again? My family LOVES food and fear of
losing these precious family recipes runs high!
II. BODY:
Transition: Now that we’ve collected all the materials we can create our cover.
Transition: We’re half way done now, we’ve finished the outside. So let’s go to the inside.
Transition: We now have our cover made, our recipes typed and printed. So, let’s put it all
together.
Brakelight: [near end of speech, signal audience that you are about to review the steps in the
process]You now have a personalized cookbook that was done in four steps. Let’s review those
steps again.
III. CONCLUSION:
B. I’d like to serve you one of the recipes from my book so you can see why it’s
important to me to preserve recipes for my family. I hope this demonstration will
encourage you to make the effort to preserve your family recipes in this very efficient
way, while you still can.