Make a family cookbook

The recipes worth collecting are rarely typed anywhere. They're on index cards, in handwriting you recognise, in a tin that only one person in the family has. This is for getting them somewhere they won't fade — one recipe at a time, in the words they were written in.

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Saffransbullar

Only at Christmas, and only with this much saffron.

Ingredients

Method

  1. 1Melt the butter, add the milk, and warm to finger temperature.
  2. 2Crumble in the yeast, then the saffron, sugar and flour.
  3. 3Prove, shape, prove again, and bake hot and short.

Start with one

Paste a recipe from the family

Any recipe you have as text — from a website, a message, an email. No account, nothing saved unless you want it.

No account needed to try

One at a time

A cookbook is finished by starting, not by planning. Add the one you cook most and the rest follows.

The wording survives

The importer copies quantities and phrasing as written rather than tidying them into house style — "a knob of butter" stays a knob of butter.

Grouped how you like

Collections for Christmas, for baking, for the ones from a particular person.

Questions

What about recipes only on paper?
Photograph the card or the page. The text comes back typed up and editable, including handwriting, as long as the writing is legible to you.
Can I give the book to someone?
You can print it, and you can share any recipe as a link that works without an account.
Will it change the recipe?
It shouldn't, and it's built not to: it copies quantities verbatim. There's a separate checker you can run yourself if you want a second opinion on something that looks off.

Start with one recipe

The one you cook most, or the one you'd be sorry to lose. The rest follows.

Start your recipe book