Preserve family recipes
Photograph the card and RecipePrinter turns the handwriting into a clean printable recipe. One copy in a drawer becomes one for the kitchen, and one for everyone who asks for it.
How it works
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Photograph the card
Lay it flat, get all four corners in frame, and upload the photo. Screenshots and typed-out recipes work the same way.
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Look it over
Some of it will come through perfectly and some will want a second look. Every line is editable, so you can correct anything before you print.
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Print the working copy
A 4 by 6 card for the box or a letter page for the binder. The copy goes in the kitchen, and the original stays where it is.
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Gather them when you're ready
Once there are enough, they can become a bound cookbook with a cover, chapters and a table of contents.
Keep the original, cook from the copy
A printed copy does the kitchen work: the counter, the splashes, the folding into a binder, the stuck-to-the-fridge afternoons. The handwritten card stays wherever you keep it, exactly as it is. You're still cooking their recipe every time you use the copy.
The handwriting comes along
Keep the photo of the card on the recipe, beside the typed version. The measurements end up in type you can read from across a kitchen, and the hand they were written in is still on the page, which is usually the part that matters most.
Questions people ask
- Will it read my grandmother's handwriting?
- Usually. Faded pencil and cursive are the hard ones, and it won't always catch every word. Whatever it does read arrives as an editable recipe, so you're tidying a line here and there rather than typing the card out from scratch.
- What if the card is too faded to read?
- You can type it in, and nothing changes from there. The recipe gets the same clean page, the same card or letter layout, and the same place in a book later.
- Can I keep who it came from?
- Yes. A recipe carries a note of its own, and that is where the name goes, or the year, or the thing they always said about it.
- Do these have to become a cookbook?
- No. Printing one card and stopping there is enough. The bound cookbook with a cover and chapters is there if you ever want it, at $19.99 a cookbook.