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Zippered synthetic bags. The bags are strictly reserved for untried recipes. Once prepared, those valuable of saving are copied at cards and positioned in her fixed file.

Karen Zander, Madison, buys six to 12 regular pocket folders (``each 20-cent school kind'') and an inexpensive 2- or 3-inch several-ring binder. She punches holes within the folders, writes categories on leading, then places cards on the left and clippings on the right.