Families from all across the United States contributed their cherished recipes – from every day favorites to those brought out only for special gatherings. Now they are available in a new Cookbook from the Family Cookbook Project.
The Family Cookbook Project was started in 2003 to help families create personalized cookbooks to help preserve those beloved recipes to be handed down for generations. This year, the editors selected from more than a quarter million recipes to come up with The Best of the Family Cookbook Project Cookbook (ISBN 978-0-9820243-0-0 Price 19.95), available at Amazon.com or www.BestCookbookProject.com.
“These fantastic recipes were hand selected by the editors of more than 120 family cookbooks as their best,” says Bill Rice, Co-Publisher of the Family Cookbook Project. “Some are simple everyday favorites from all around the country and some are the prized “family get-together” show stoppers. All of them are beloved by the families that submitted them.”
Every family has treasured recipes, beloved as much for the memories they evoke, as it is for the taste. Often those recipes have been handed down orally through generations, or squirreled away on index cards or scraps of paper. A family cookbook is a way to gather, organize and share this wealth of family culinary favorites.
The Best of the Family Cookbook Project Cookbook is 8 1/2×11 in size and has 218 pages. It contains full color photos of some of the recipes. 354 recipes are divided intro eight categories: Appetizers & Beverages, Bread and Muffins, Soups, Stews, Salads and Sauces, Main Courses: Beef, Pork and Lamb, Main Courses: Seafood, Poultry, Pasta and Casseroles, Vegetables and Vegetarian Dishes, Desserts, Pies, Cakes and Cookies and Miscellaneous.
Some of the recipes include: Hummingbird Cake from The Snyder/Johnson Family Cookbook Project, Chicken Tortellini Chowder from Lewis Girl’s Lucky Duck Cookbook, Sausage, Shrimp and Zucchini Casserole from La Famiglia Campano Cookbook, Best Ever Lemon Scones from Joy of the Repast Cookbook, Finger Licken Hawaiian Chicken from Home Sweet Home Recipes and Ginny’s Award Winning Irish Soda Bread from The New Donovan Family Cookbook Volume II.
The back of the Best of the Family Cookbook Project Cookbook contains indexes by both category and by contributor. It was created using the same online program thousands have used to create their own personalized cookbooks.
Winner if the 2009 Web Marketing Association Family Standard of Excellence WebAward, the Family Cookbook Project Website was started as a project in 2003 to help one family collect recipes and organize a family cookbook. Overwhelming feedback from those who used the website led to its continued development and public launch. Currently, more than 12,400 individuals, families and groups have started personalized cookbooks using the website and have contributed more than 267,000 individual recipes to the database.
“Personalized cookbooks have been around since the 1940s, however the process of collecting and organizing recipes has always been a labor intensive project for the cookbook editor,” says Chip Lowell, Co-Publisher of the Family Cookbook Project. “Our site brings this process into the Internet age and now it’s easy and cost effective to have your very own cookbook printed. The Family Cookbook Project website provides step by step instructions and tools to help cookbook editors invite others to participate and allow them to enter their favorite recipes directly into the online system. The editor then simply reviews and edits the recipes, selects printing options, and sends the cookbook to be printed. The finished printed cookbooks are then received by the editor in a few weeks time”.
The Best of the Family Cookbook Project Cookbook (ISBN 978-0-9820243-0-0 Price 19.95), available at Amazon.com or www.BestCookbookProject.com .
About the Family Cookbook Project
The Family Cookbook Project is dedicated to helping individuals and families collect and preserve the time-honored recipes that are so important to our family traditions. The website at www.familycookbookproject.com provides step-by-step instructions and online tools to create a valuable family heirloom. Personalized cookbooks are also used by schools and church groups as important fundraisers. Groups looking to create cookbooks for fundraising efforts, can also check out www.cookbookfundraiser.com.