How to Create a Family Cookbook Online
Recipes handed down through the generations are part of your family and creating a family cookbook will preserve them for generations to come. Here are websites where you, and any family member around the world, can combine your culinary masterpieces and produce a hardbound family cookbook. This article walks you through the steps for gathering the appropriate information, where the online cookbook websites are located, and making the cookbook reflect your family. Creating a family cookbook online is easy to do, fun to work on, and will be a cherished gift for your family. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
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Gather Family Recipes
Talk to other members of your family about creating a family recipe book. Ask them to pull out their family's favorite recipes and to write down the recipes that are made without any written instructions. We all have those where you add a pinch of this and a little of that.
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Family Cookbook Photos of the Finished Dish, Dessert, Cookie, Salad, etc.
When the recipe is made take a couple of pictures of it to compliment the recipe. For some cooks, it is nice to see if their finished dish looks like it should. Taking pictures of each step, if the family recipe is complicated, will also help the cooks follow your recipe instructions easier.
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Story to Include In the Family Cookbook
Write a quick story about something that happened in the kitchen while the dish was being prepared, who the recipe was handed down from, a picture of that person, the handwritten recipe card Grandma wrote, or anything that combines family with cooking. This part of the family cookbook is interesting and the family stories may be read from cover to cover before any recipe is followed.
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Create a Family Cookbook Online - Choices to Review
Look through the choices of online websites that provide the templates and instructions for creating a cookbook online. Items to look at include:
• Choices of covers you can create,
• The number of many pages you can generate,
• The ease of uploading photos and typing in the recipe,
• How you can customize the pages with graphic enhancements, backgrounds, number of recipes per page, etc.,
• The cost per book, and
• The choices for the finished family cookbook including type of paper used, material selection for the cover, and if the cookbook is hardbound or spiral style. -
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Online Cookbook Websites Available
The Great Family Cookbook Project - This website provides step by step instructions to launch and manage a personal or family cookbook project. Sign up for a free account, each contributor can access the cookbook project, choose from 10 recipe layouts and divider options that will help you create a unique family cookbook online.. www.familycookbookproject.com
Blurb - This cookbook website takes your creativity in the kitchen and translates it into a cherished family cookbook. This is a software program that you download on to your computer. Use the fill-in-the-blank recipe generator, customize your backgrounds, cover, and photos, and choose from a variety of high quality covers.
www.blurb.com - search cookbook.Bookemon - This website provides an online book build option, with 7 templates to choose from, to create your family cookbook or you can upload your existing documents and create a unique look.
www.bookemon.com - search cookbook
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Tips & Warnings
Create a lasting collection of your family's favorite recipes by making a family cookbook online and having it professionally bound. This is a great family activity that will be cherished for generations to come.
Resources
- Photo Credit familycookbookproject.com sample
