C.R. Gibson QP13-8949 Recipe Binder, 11 x 12 inches

At first I thought this was a litle pricy for a recipe binder but when I received it, I was very impressed with the quality and beauty of this binder. It is a beautiful deep red color, leatherlike, sturdy binder. The cover has a cute cutout with 3 metal kitchen utensils hanging from a metal bar. The inside front and back covers have useful information like measurements, terms and techniques, and substitutions. The book has plenty of dividers but I purchased some extra dividers from another company to expand on the categories in the book. There are plenty of acetate inserts to put recipes into directly from your computer printer and they also included some blank recipe cards that are in acetate pages. Each page can hold 2 recipes. You can add your own acetate pages as well. The dividers do not stick outside of the closed binder. This is quite a large book and doesn't fit easily on my pantry shelves so I have been keeping it out on my Island and it matches all of my red accent appliances, tea towels etc. It is a conversation starter for sure. I am keeping this recipe book for all of my low carb Keto recipes. I have had it for a while now and it is holding up beautifully. I am happy with this purchase.

If you are looking for a beautiful recipe keeper, this is definitely the one for you! I was pleasantly surprised by the beauty, quality, and contents of this 3-ring recipe binder. The picture definitely doesn't do it justice. It has an elegant, red, leather cover The shade of red is beautiful and not dark like I imagined. What I didn't realize is that the small, 2-1/2 inch square cutout on the front cover is recessed and has the word "Recipes" imprinted on one side of the inset. Securely attached inside the small niche are 3 mini-utensils (ladle, slotted spoon, & spatula - all 3 dimensional) on a small hanging rack. The style is quite classy and would make a memorable special gift or kitchen keepsake. Included are several plastic, protective pages that hold a total of four 7x5 inch recipes cards (There are places for 2 cards on the front & 2 cards on the back). In addition, there are several plastic pages that hold full-page recipes; one recipe can be inserted on the front of the plastic page and one on the back. I was also very pleased by the dividers included. Mainly because the preprinted labels coincide with how I like to categorize my own recipes. The labels on these dividers are: Appetizers, Soups & Sandwiches, Breads, Main Dishes, Seafood, Pastas, Side dishes, Desserts, Brunches, Holidays, Favorites, & Beverages. There is also an 11-1/4 x 9-1/4 inch sturdy envelope that closes with a string where you can keep clippings or other loose items. Overall, this is an exceptional recipe notebook and I am thrilled with my purchase!

Cute, affordable, and exactly what I was looking for. Works like a three ring binder, yet looks like a professional recipe book. This has been a great way for me to update design my own recipe pages (since I won't be spilling on them anymore), as well as a perfect place to store cutouts from cooking magazines or printouts from websites that were previously creating a paper landslide in my kitchen. Where there was once a pile of stained, flour-covered recipe printouts in an orange folder, there is now a clean, leather-bound collection.The recipe cards also great little additions, and the conversions/substitutions list on the inside cover was a fantastic addition, and one I've used regularly since buying this binder.My one complaint: The dividers are pre-labeled, which is rather irksome, especially for someone who needs a whole muffin section. They're well made, so I'm not inclined to replace them with regular plastic dividers, but I'd still ultimately like to be able to choose my own section headings.Other than that, I'm pleased as pie! (Recipe forthcoming.)

Received the cookbook in the mail yesterday. I love it and have already started filling it with recipes! I love the conversion chart on the inside of the front cover, and the substitution chart on the inside of the back cover. It seems a little wrinkled on the inside of the front cover (like the kind of wrinkled when you put too much glue on something in grade school and didn't spread it out it wouldn't sit quite right), but it is not really noticeable unless you are looking for things that might be wrong with it.For packing (or when the pages were produced, I don't know), there were plastic slips holding all of the pages together inside the book, lengthwise and width-wise. When one of the slips was taped together in the back, the tape was placed a little carelessly and a large part of it ended up sticking to the manila folder for recipe clippings in the back of the cookbook. No matter how carefully I tried to remove this, the tape ripped up a top layer of the manila folder, exposing a white patch (not a huge deal, but now it looks a lot less nice and it is a huge pet peeve of mine). Other than this issue, the cookbook is wonderful and I am very happy with the purchase!

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