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Step 1
Get in touch with your family before your reunion to let them know you're compiling a family reunion cookbook. Call, email or send postcards to let your extended family members know to come to the reunion with their best recipes.
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Step 2
Ask each family or family member to bring three to five of their best recipes to be included in your family reunion cookbook. Have them include a small blurb about the recipe that includes where the recipe came from, any nutritional information, serving suggestions and whether or not lower-fat ingredients can be substituted without changing the taste.
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Step 3
Collect the recipes at your family reunion. Once you've collected the recipes, you can begin organizing them into categories for your family reunion cookbook. Examples of categories include Appetizers, Soups and Salads, Main Dishes, Side Dishes and Desserts.
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Step 4
Put together your family reunion cookbook yourself. If you're planning your family reunion cookbook as a start-to-finish, do-it-yourself adventure, you'll need to buy binders, reams of paper and protective sleeves. You can retype all of the recipes into the same format, print and then slip the recipes into sleeves and into their binders. The process is simple, if a bit time-consuming.
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Step 5
Have your family reunion cookbook assembled at a printer's shop, if the idea of putting together your family reunion cookbook yourself doesn't appeal to you. Provide the printer with copies of the recipes in the format you've chosen, and choose a binding.
