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My college major was food science because I enjoyed reading cookbooks. Julia Child is my hero (yes I know she died), and I have many of her cookbooks plus many others.
To keep track of all my recipes and have a place to put good-sounding ones that show up in the newspaper as well as the handwritten ones from my grandmother's and mother's recipe boxes, I use a database. Today there are 4,348 recipes in it. A good-sized church cookbook has around 250 to 300 recipes, to give you an idea of what this would look like printed.
At one time I thought I was going to test these recipes, and where there were multiples of a given type, such as meatloaf, I was going to try them all and decide which was best or create my own hybrids narrowing it down to one or two.
My latest thing is to take a hard look at what I've got and ask myself if I will ever make a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, for example. As good as carrot cakes can be, and as uniquely special as each of these sounds, it's easy to buy a carrot cake just any time, so I'm working up to deleting them, thereby reducing the number of recipes by 7, down to 4,341 recipes.
** Almost used the word 'which' in that last paragraph, but resisted the temptation.
