The bread-bakers recipe archives contain every recipe ever posted to the
bread-bakers digest (weekly list) and the daily-bread digest! We save
recipes on a quarterly basis.
The recipes are available in either text format or as MasterCook cookbooks.
The text format files (mxp) can be imported into MasterCook, opened in any
text editing program, or browsed on-line. The MC cookbook files (mcf) can
only be opened in MasterCook; there is no importing necessary.
The text files are available as either zipped or not. The MC cookbook files
are available only as zipped files. Free programs are available on the net
to download that will unzip these files.
Here's a description of what you'll find when you go to the archives:
For information on the archives, click on: 00index.txt
Decide if you want text files or the MasterCook cookbooks. (If you are a MC
user, I highly recommend you download the cookbooks. You will avoid any
importing errors this way, and it's much easier.) Click on your choice of
mc-zip/ txt-zip/ (or text/ if you just want to browse or do not have an
un-zip program).
You'll see a list of files with names such as: b3q99mxp.zip or b3q99mcf.zip
The "3q" is the quarter, "99" is the year. "mcf" indicates it's a MC
cookbook, while "mxp" indicates it's a text file (in MC import format).
Files with names such as: b3q99idx.txt are simply an index of all recipe
names in the associated recipe file and can be browsed on-line.
To obtain a complete collection of recipes posted to these bread lists,
download all the files (one for each quarter) and then merge them on your
system. Again, if you are a MasterCook user, this is most easily
accomplished by downloading the ".mcf" files found in the mc-zip section of
the archives.
I hope this helps you find what you need from the archives. Let me know if
you have any other questions.
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Ellen C.
ellen@elekta.com