What is a recipe box?

Answer 1

In the old days, homemakers used to keep their recipes in a box, like a little file box with the recipes written on index cards. I inherited one like that from my mother-in-law, with her ancient handwritten recipes in pencil. You can buy fancier ones that are more attractive than just an index card box (or probably it would be easy to make and decorate your own box that would hold index cards, if you like to write recipes by hand). In addition, recipe websites offer a cyber recipe box by giving you a way to save your favorite recipes online. The advantage of having a recipe written on a card is that you can keep it in the kitchen and carry it to the counter, whereas unless you have a laptop you can't do that with your recipes on the computer.