February 2025
It’s an ordinary school exercise book with faint blue lines on each page. The covers are missing. It’s thick with pasted and sticky taped recipes – grown to thrice the size. It’s ragged at its edges and they have turned brown as are some of the pages. The recipe collector takes the unusual step of collecting all the recipes for cakes/desserts etc. at one end of the book and then turning the book upside down and collecting all the meat and vegetable recipes at the other end. There are some blank pages between these two sections. The pages aren’t numbered. There is no index.