The Family Cookbook Project

Month: September 2021

  • Understanding Recipe Privacy

    Understanding Recipe Privacy

    When you or a contributor adds a recipe to your online cookbook, there is an option to make your recipe private. If you check this box just above the save button, your recipe will only be available to those individuals who are logged into your online cookbook. Some people choose this option when a recipe is not yet ready to be shared publicly or they simply want to limit the people who have access to it.
    However, there are many benefits to sharing your recipe publicly. Public recipes are indexed by Google and other search engines. You can access your recipes simply by entering your name and the recipe name into Google. Online access from any computer without having to remember your log in information is very convenient.
    Family Cookbook Project also searches the public recipes to look for the best recipes to be included one of the Family Cookbook Project’s “Best of” cookbooks we publish. We also promote public recipes on our Facebook pages and on Pinterest. This allows us to highlight your recipes to the other Cookbook Editors, which is truly an honor.
    We believe recipes are made to be shared, just like the dishes that are made from them. So next time you enter your favorite recipe into your Family Cookbook Project online recipe box, be sure to mark it public so it can be shared.
  • 1911 Cookbook Might Be One Of The First Family Cookbooks

    1911 Cookbook Might Be One Of The First Family Cookbooks

    Family Cookbooks have been around for  long time. Sometimes they are the work of an individual compiling their recipes, other times they are the join effort of a community.

    Recently, a cookbook called ‘250 Tried Recipes for Everyday Use’ features numerous recipes supplied by housewives around the UK back in 1911, and was discovered in a kitchen of a property that had been left unused since the 1950s in the United Kingdom.

    The fascinating publication provides an insight into the basic ingredients and cooking methods used at the time and all instructions are boiled down to one paragraph.

    It also includes a cheeky recipe on how best to ‘cook a husband’ as too many ‘are utterly spoiled by mismanagement’. Comical descriptions include ‘keeping them in hot water’, ‘roasting them’ or keeping them ‘in a stew with irritating ways and words.’ The housewife also suggests ‘add a little sugar in the form of what confectioners call kisses’ and that ‘a little spice improves them’.

    Read an article on the cookbook that appeared on the UK’s Daily Mail’s website, including additional recipes and pages from the historic cookbook.

     

     

     

  • Understanding your Editor account

    Understanding your Editor account

    If you are new to Family Cookbook Project, this is a great place to start to get to know your editor account.

    Editor’s Homepage

    For most people, your homepage is set to the “Quick Start” version which features a section for Alerts and Notices, Recipes, Layout and Design, Cookbook and Account Info, Contributors, Our Blog, and Cookbook Publishing.

    Each section has a number of “quick links” on the homepage to highly used pages, but more importantly, a green button that will take you to the full set of links for that section.

    The other option for homepage is the “Full Page”. This was our original homepage and shows your contributor welcome message and photo, a table of contents of recipes, a list of contributors, and a list of newest recipes.

    In the upper right corner of your editor’s homepage is a drop down menu to select either of these pages.

    Along the top of both Editor home page’s is a black navigation bar that contains important links that will follow you on all pages of the site:

    • Cookbook Home – Takes you back to your homepage.
    • Editor Activities – Links to take you directly to a section without having to go to the homepage.
    • Add Recipe – Here is where you add your own recipes.
    • View Recipes – Several choices to see the recipes in your cookbook
    • Edit Your Info – Here is where you can change your email and password. (usernames can not be changed once the account is set up).
    • Preview Book – Here you can create a PDF proof of your cookbook to view online or download.
    • Logout – This logs you out of your account.

     

     

     

    Bill Rice is founder and Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect and share food memories through customized printed cookbooks filled with treasured recipes. Follow us on Facebook and Pinterest!

     

  • Follow Family Cookbook On Social Media

    Follow Family Cookbook On Social Media

    Family Cookbook Project is not simply a cookbook Publisher, it’s a community where individuals and families gather and share recipes and food memories.

    We have created a system that makes it easy to gather and publish your family food traditions. However we also try to give valuable advice on how to make your cookbook better, how to create better recipes and even how to better understand cooking.

    There are many ways to learn how to build a better cookbook. Here are just some of the ways you can follow us on social media.

    Facebook

    Follow us on Facebook to get interesting recipes from our editors, ideas to improve your cookbook and general cooking tips.

    We also have specific pages created for barbecue recipes and cookie recipes, be sure to follow those pages if they are of interest.

    Pinterest

    Cooking and recipes are one of the largest categories being shared on Pinterest today and Family Cookbook Project has 18 different boards filled with great recipes and cooking tips and ways to improve your cookbook. Some of the more interesting recipe categories include Food Guys Like, Recipes from Around the World, Let-us Eat Salad, Big Shrimp Recipes and even What’s for Breakfast.

    Instagram

    Family Cookbook Project on Instagram is new to Instagram and will be sharing recipes and tips on this platform as well.

    Twitter

    If you don’t follow any of the other social media platforms then you will find us at Twitter with the same great information. Follow the hashtag #familycookbookproject

    YouTube

    Our newest entrance into social media is on YouTube where we post interesting videos on how to use Family Cookbook Project’s various online tools to create the perfect family recipe book that you can be proud of.

     

    Bill Rice is founder and Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect and share food memories through customized printed cookbooks filled with treasured recipes. Follow us on Facebook and Pinterest!

  • Family Cookbook Project In the News

    Family Cookbook Project In the News

    Increasingly, more websites are finding out about FamilyCookbookProject.com and writing about their experiences with creating their own family cookbook using our website. Here are some online articles you might enjoy. This will be updated from time to time with new articles so check back often.

     

    The Family Cookbook Project – Let’s turn all those recipes you’ve been collecting into your very own family cookbook! – The Diary of a Recipe Collector is written by wife to an awesome husband, mother of four great kids, and a former middle school math teacher.  She love collecting recipes and cookbooks and being able to share the things she make.  She has gotten so many cookbooks and torn so many recipes out of magazines that making a Cookbook with FamilyCookbookProject.com was a no brainer!

    This Customized Cookbook Is The Perfect Gift For The Chefs In Your Family – SheFinds is the destination where women are inspired to treat themselves. They liked our cookbook making software.

     

    Collect family recipes for a fundraiser! – Reunions Magazine, which helps family and groups create memorable reunions, Featured this article in their September issue that includes advise from Family Cookbook Project founder Bill Rice on how to get everyone involved with making a cookbook for a family reunion.

     

    Making Your Own Cookbook – Things that make people go AWW is a blog that is always looking for new and fun things for people to try. They wrote about Family Cookbook Project.

     

    Here is an interesting idea for Father’s Day Gifting – a personal cookbook filled with dad’s favorite recipes and photos. FamilyCookbookProject.com – InTouch Rugby covers Rugby clubs in the UK, Ireland and USA with a focus on grassroots rugby unions. They named Family Cookbook Project as a great idea for Father’s Day gift giving.

    Pitch the Old Recipes – Sand and Snow, a lifestyle website, included Family Cookbook Project in their article Mother’s Day Gifts That Will Put A Smile On Her Face. We know a personal cookbook will do that for anyone!

     

    FAMILY COOKBOOK PROJECT: HOW TO CREATE A FAMILY COOKBOOK – Practically Homemade features simple recipes for everyday families. They used Family Cookbook Project to make their family cookbook and wrote about how easy it was to do as a family project.

     

    Spring Potato Salad Recipe – Family cookbook Project sponsored a recipe on the website CuisineFiend and they gave our site a try and loved it. The Potato Salad recipe is very good as well.

    Create A Cookbook – A Great Way To Preserve Your Family Recipes –  Old World Garden Farms was created as a way to update friends and family creating a “simple life” on a small farm. Finding love in the simple things in life to live to the fullest. The sites have now grown to over 10 million monthly viewers, with followers from 220+ countries.

    Guys! I Made a Cookbook…And You Can Too! – MiMi-a great name for grandma provides a Grandma’s spin on crafts, games, recipes & lifestyle. She used Family Cookbook Project to create her own cookbook and offers it to her readers in a digital format.

    How to Make a Family Cookbook and Pass Down Family Recipes – Whether you’re an established, been-there-done-that Grandma, a brand new Grandma or a Grandma-to-be, you are in the right place, this blog helps you make the most of the time we spend with our Grandchildren.

    For Grandmothers & Grandchildren – Family Cookbook Project Review – Grandma’s Home offer a diverse collection of grandparenting tips, articles, parenting issues, personal experiences, brags, lots of photos, and much more! A little bit of everything.

    Create a Family Cookbook Together at Family Cookbook Project – Parenting Healthy is all about product reviews. Bringing products to the lime light that can help families save time and raise happy, healthy and active families. They selected to review Family Cookbook Project for an post.

    A Family Cookbook Is A Present With A Future  – This is a guest post by Family Cookbook Project founder Bill Rice on the website babyboomers.com, resource for Baby Boomers who want to keep their mind open, their information current, their lifestyle healthy, and their life interesting.

    Mother’s Day Gift Guide | 2021 – The Best Mother’s Day Gifts from Posh Beauty Blog. Time to celebrate the beautiful nurturing women in your life by honoring them with your time, love and beautiful gifts. This big, fat Mother’s Day gift guide has a little of something for everyone!

    Fab Mother’s Day Finds With Doorstep Delivery – With this collection of decadent, luxurious and generally thoughtful Mother’s Day endowment ideas proffering convenient direct-to-door delivery, your holiday gifting game can remain on-point. The Luxe List placed Family Cookbook Project as the lead gift idea.

     

    Family Cookbook Project -This Lady Blog’s included Family Cookbook Project in her Mother’s Day Gift Guide 2021 a one-of-a-kind gift that will always be remembered.

     

    HOW TO CREATE A CUSTOM FAMILY COOKBOOK – A UNIQUE DIY GIFT IDEA – A Hundred Affections hope is to inspire moms running the show at home – to help make homemaking easy! If you’re looking for budget home décor ideas or DIY projects, recipes (healthy and not-so-healthy), kid activities – or just a kindred spirit, this site is for you.

    Preserving Family Recipes The Easy Way – Family Cookbook Project Founder Bill Rice was asked to contribute an article to I AM A SONIC BOOMER is a blog for those who believe that the Boomers will change what the word Senior means. The blog is also for those who are interested in what life after retirement may look like for them.

    HOW TO CREATE A CUSTOM FAMILY COOKBOOK THE EASY WAY – All Things with Purpose is a creative lifestyle blog started by Sarah Kemp as a place to share DIY tutorials, tips, money saving advice and homeschooling resources. She created her own family cookbook and wrote about the experience.


    What if You Could Have Just One Cookbook? Wouldn’t That Make You Happy?    – Shea Hulse’s Realize Your Natural Potential is another website blogger who started a family cookbook and loved is so much she wrote about the experience on her website.

    HOW YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN (QUICK & EASY) FAMILY COOKBOOK – Midlife Rambler focuses on giving women over 40 everything they need to know to live their very best life. We talk about style, health, fitness, entertaining, cooking, travel, and more!

    Create a personalised family cookbook filled with your own recipes – Eat Simply is a top rated food blog in the United Kingdom and she writes about her experiences with FamilyCookbookProject.co.uk, the UK version of our site.

    Preserving Cherished Food Memories with a Family Cookbook – Nothing But Net Nanny, a social blog that will offer a fun, inspirational and even self-deprecating take on aging, retirement and fitness…or lack thereof. Family Cookbook Project founder Bill Rice wrote this guest post.

     

    Family Cookbook Project – Hedi Hearts is a UK-based lifestyle blog created out of love and the desire to rediscover the joy of preparing and eating food while maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

    Custom Recipe Book – BC Parent Newsmagazine is British Columbia’s original and most trusted resource for local families. In its 30th year of print, parents and caregivers have come to rely on BC Parent for relevant, up-to-date information they can trust.

     

    Family Cookbook Project – Sightings Over Sixty is a Baby Boomer blog looks at health, finance, retirement, grown-up children and how time flies.

     

    4 GREAT OPTIONS FOR FUNDING YOUR MINISTRY EFFORTS – Church Executive Magazine included CookbookFundraiser.com as a great way to raise funds for your church.

    Creating Family Cookbook Online – The Hartford Courant newspaper ran a major Sunday article about Family Cookbook Project back in 2010. We recently found the article and posted it and the lead photo to our blog.

    Create your own family cookbook – The staff of Cape Cod Life Magazine got together and created a cookbook using Family Cookbook Project and featured us in their magazine.

    Family Cookbook Project – C/NET, a leading software review site, included the Family Cookbook Project App in it Download.com site to make it available to more people.

     

    Home Shopping Network – Family Cookbook Project was featured on a segment of HSN that explained what you can do with the program and how it makes wonderful personalized cookbooks.

    Please visit these website and check out the articles.