Recipes Worth Keeping
A kit for recording your own recipes with their source, their version history and the story beside them.
US$4.99 · Made by Indigo & Paper
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Eighteen pages, A4 and US Letter. No recipes are supplied: this is for the ones your family already cooks, and for the details that get lost when only the ingredients are written down.
What is in it
- Start with one dish, and three routes in: someone can tell you, you have an old card, or you only remember eating it.
- Recipe / ingredients and Recipe / method, reused per dish, sharing a recipe ID so sheets stay together. Quantities are recorded in the source's own units, with a prompt not to silently convert a handful into millilitres.
- Ask for the story and Remember the cook — the questions worth asking while someone is still able to answer them.
- Keep a version record and Two versions, both remembered, because the argument about whose version is right is usually the point.
- Words from our kitchen, recorded as the speaker said them, marked provisional when the spelling is uncertain.
- Leave a question open — a visible unanswered question is worth more than an invented detail.
- An example of careful recording: a filled page showing what a faithful record looks like, gaps included.
What it is not
No supplied recipes, no cooking instructions, no validation that a method is safe or complete. The pages organise what you record; they do not check it.
What you may do with it
One purchasing household may print and reuse the blank pages, and share its own completed collection with relatives. No resale or public redistribution of the blank templates.
At a glance
18 pages, supplied as two PDFs (A4 and US Letter) to print and write on by hand. Inside: three ways to start with one dish, ingredients and method sheets that share a recipe ID, questions for the story and the cook, a version record and a page for two versions of the same dish, a page for words from your kitchen, a page for questions left open, and a filled example of careful recording. Digital download; nothing is shipped. One purchasing household may print and reuse the blank pages and share its own completed collection with relatives; no resale or public redistribution of the blank templates. No recipes or cooking instructions are supplied, and the pages do not check that a method is safe or complete.