I did the same thing when my son married - I completed a 'My Recipes' book for my soon-to-be DIL filled with family recipes. It never occurred to me to have her mom add their recipes too. shoot. What was I thinking?
I also bought a new phone book and filled it with all the addresses and phone numbers of our family so that she would have easy access to those.
In the early 1970's, when my grandma was well into her 80's and bed-ridden, my uncle - who lived with her and cared for her - 'interviewed' her to get the family recipes written down. I have them now. They're hilarious: "Alice's Stew - Dredge enough beef to cover bottom of my stew pot and brown in oil. Add onions, carrots, potatoes, tomato sauce, and water. Add oregano, basil, bay leaf. Cook all day, and don't let the fire get too hot." (She had a partially wood-burning stove.)
All of the recipes are simply lists of ingredients. Her gravy has an instruction at the end: "Stir like hell."
lol...