1.   It was an old recipe, nearly forgotten, but one that had always brought raves.

2.   Writers of old recipes often claimed that lemon curd keeps for years.

3.   All those old family recipes are Hong Kong style, though.

4.   An amble through the old recipe file is a walk down a most unhealthy memory lane.

5.   Barbara Budd of Woodacre is looking for an old recipe for sweet-sour spareribs developed by Del Monte.

6.   Barbecue shrimp is an old New Orleans recipe that has nothing to do with barbecue or with grilling.

7.   Bay folk treasure old recipes for duck stew, soft clam pie and fried eel that sustained some families through the Depression.

8.   A cookbook of old Lebanese recipes is due out this summer in Arabic, French and English.

9.   A reader uncovered an old recipe she had for flop cake, which called for boxes of this and boxes of that.

10.   Every Christmas, Wales would spend two nights making batches of his famous fruitcakes from an old recipe from The New York Times.