For those interested in Australian cookery books

Are your cookery books festooned with fading post-it notes marking your favourite recipes? Do you find yourself wondering which book had that great recipe? Do you want to keep track of your own tried and true recipes rather than rely on web databases? There's a really clever site being developed which indexes your books: www.eatyourbooks.com
They haven't indexed a lot of Australian recipe books yet, and say Australian books would be higher on their list of priorities if more Australians were interested. I'm mentioning this because I've been building a spreadsheet of my own favourite recipes, can see that a shared system would be much better, and wish this one had been around when I started out as, unlike other recipe indexing systems I tried, it indexes your own library. There's also a thread about it on the cookbookers group on LT, but it's other Aussies I'm hoping to interest so my collection can be indexed sooner :)

I prefer www.cookbooker.com

Thanks for the heads up digifish. I had a look at cookbooker as well, in fact I added the same collection to it as I had added to eatyourbooks. They take quite different approaches it seems to me, and I still much prefer eatyourbooks. Firstly, they index the books for you, and once a book is indexed it is fully indexed for everyone who owns it. Secondly, once indexed, all the recipes in those books you own can be exhaustively searched by multiple ingredients, recipe type and cuisine for example, which is what I have been keen to achieve. The two or more ingredients search is a favourite in my own spreadsheet.
Two of my books are already fully indexed in eatyourbooks, so I can now search them this way, even though they are concentrating on the American market to start with. Many of my books had records in cookbooker, but they have only one or two recipes each, and the searching across recipes seems far more limited.

I looked at eatyourbooks a while ago and it appears that they charge money.

I know it can be a bother sometimes going through the indexes to half a dozen books because you can't remember which one had the recipe for rats in onion sauce (OK, I actually know exactly where to find that one), but since the invention of post-it notes I have less trouble.

The problem is not favourite recipes, but a recipe that you vaguely remember trying about five years ago.

Cookbooker is quite good fun. I has made me review my cookbooks, actively going through them and looking out forgotten recipes and others that I really mean to try out. The reviews are more for my own benefit, but I like to think that my book reviews may alert some people to worthwhile books.

Check them out. I'm registered as 'bunyip', partly because I'm not actually dajashby, I'm his wife.

Hallo Eurydice2. Yes I am always losing recipes. Do you know a book called Passion for Pulses? I think it is a great book. written by agricultural scientists I think, and compiled by Nancy Longnecker. I really like the Middle Eastern recipes in it. I haven't explored the other recipes enough. One recipe they do not have is a Vietnamese coconut and split pea cake (very yummy). Don't know if you have come across this somewhere. The publisher is Tuart House, an imprint of University of Western Australia Press.