The tomato sauce you grew up on. The cookies that meant it was Christmas. They live on index cards in one kitchen drawer — fading, one small accident from gone. Photograph them once, and they're preserved: her handwriting on every page, next to a version your kids can actually cook from.
Preserve the first recipe — freeTakes two minutes. No credit card.
Retyping the recipes loses the thing that matters. We keep the original card — the cursive, the stains, the "don't skimp on butter!!" in the margin — beside a clean transcription on every single page.
2 cans San Marzano
pork ribs + meatballs
simmer ALL DAY — don't rush!
basil at the end
(your father likes it thick)
Next visit home, snap every card in the recipe box. Twenty minutes, tops. Cookbook margins and newspaper clippings too.
Every card becomes a clean, structured recipe — with her name and era on it. You review, fix a word here and there, add the stories.
Order a hardcover for you, your brother, your sister — and one for Mom. Extra copies are 10% off. The family gift that ends all gift debates.
Five book styles, from heirloom to modern. Every one keeps the original card on the page.
plus tracked shipping, from $5.99 · up to 32 pages included
"After Dad passed we couldn't find his chili recipe anywhere. That's why I did Mom's box the next month. Best thing I've done all year."
"I gave my sister the book for her 40th. She opened it to Grandma's pierogi page and just sat down on the floor."
Yes. We transcribe the original language faithfully, and you can add a translation alongside if you want one.
Today you can share a private link for everyone to browse. Full multi-contributor books — everyone uploads their own cards — is coming next.
Anything uncertain is flagged with a marker so you can fix it in one click. You approve every recipe before it's in the book — and the original photo is always right there.
Printing takes a few business days, then tracked shipping — most US orders arrive in about two weeks, Canada a few days longer. Order by late November for Christmas.