You photograph or send us your recipe cards. We transcribe, organize, design, and print them into one beautiful book your family will actually cook from, and we keep every handwritten card exactly as it is.
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You choose the title, the illustration, the accent color and an optional dedication. The cover is a hardcover casewrap, so it looks like it belongs on the shelf next to the cookbooks you already love.
This example is a real book bought from our company, not a mockup.
We understand there is so much history in each of your recipes, so we handle each page with the care it deserves.
Recipes that were already typed get rebuilt into one consistent format throughout the book, including fonts, structure, and measurement conventions. Ingredients are listed in a readable two-column layout with numbered steps that are easy to follow. Every side note and margin comment on your original is kept in the recipe.
Handwritten cards are never retyped. We clean up and enhance the photo you send, then place it on a designed page with a clean header, so it matches the rest of the book without losing a thing. The character of the recipe card will be kept intact, with the scribbled out measurements and handwritten notes left across the bottom of the page, just as you've always known it.
Every tier includes transcription, design, a table of contents, section dividers, and a digital proof before printing.
For a single collection, a card box, one stack of grandmother's cards, or a starter book.
For a real family archive, several sources, several hands, decades of collecting in one drawer.
For the whole thing, every source, every relative, bound in linen to sit on a shelf for fifty years.
Add-ons: mail-in scanning $69 · rush delivery in 10 business days $75 · additional recipes $3 each · gift certificates for when it will not arrive in time · digital PDF only $99
Every price includes printing and US shipping. Sales tax is added at checkout only for orders delivered in Colorado.
Already have your book and want another? Choose the same tier as your book, and check out with the email you ordered with so we can match it: Keepsake $59 · Heirloom $69 · Legacy $99. Not sure which you have? Write to [email protected] and we will send the right link.
"Retyping a handwritten card keeps the recipe and loses the person. So we never retype handwriting. We keep it exactly as it was written."Butter & Ink
That is normal and it is our job. We read carefully and, when something is genuinely ambiguous, a smudge that could be 1 tsp or 1 tbsp, we flag it and ask you rather than guessing.
No. Phone photos on a kitchen table are fine for typed recipes. For handwritten cards that will be reproduced as images, better light helps, and we will tell you if any specific card needs a reshoot before we print. If you would rather not deal with it, add mail-in scanning at checkout for $69, and we will handle it.
Yes, we keep your book file on record, so new recipes can be easily incorporated. Additional recipes added to an existing book are $3 each plus the cost of a reprint.
That is what it is designed for. Pages print on 80# coated stock, which resists splashes and wipes clean, and the hardcover protects it on the counter and on the shelf between uses. It is made to be cooked from, and it looks like it belongs on the shelf when you are done.
If you photograph them yourself, they never leave your house. If you add mail-in scanning ($69, charged separately), we scan and return every original by insured, tracked mail within five business days of receipt. We never keep or discard an original.
You tell us what to change and we change it. Nothing prints until you approve it, and you can have a full refund any time before it goes to press, no reason needed. After a book has been printed and shipped we will reprint any book with an error we made, at no cost.
Yes, it makes a wonderful gift. If you have the recipes in hand, order normally and ship it to them. If the recipes belong to the recipient, buy a gift certificate. It arrives by email the moment you check out, and they choose the book that fits their recipes and enter its code whenever they are ready. A bigger book costs only the difference.
Three weeks from upload to doorstep for most orders, four for The Legacy. Rush service is ten business days for $75. During November, December, and the two weeks before Mother's Day, order early, since printing and shipping slow down in those weeks. For Christmas 2026, get your photos in by Monday, November 23 and your book arrives before Christmas, as long as you approve the proof within two days of getting it. With mail-in scanning, November 23 is the day your cards need to reach us. After that, a gift certificate is the way to give a book in time: it arrives by email the moment you check out.
Get our free guide to gathering and photographing your family's recipes. It is the first step of a book, and useful even if you never make one. We will also send one reminder before the Christmas cutoff.
One email now and a few more over the coming weeks, then only before a holiday cutoff. Unsubscribe any time. We never share your address.
Take twenty minutes, photograph what you have, and let us do the rest. You will have a proof in your inbox inside of two weeks.
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