The Family Cookbook Project

Year: 2021

  • 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.

     

  • Use Standard Measurements For Your Recipes

    Use Standard Measurements For Your Recipes

    For many generations, recipes were handed down by word of mouth from mother to daughter. Recipes consisted of a little of this and a smidgin of that. The food always came our great – or at least that is what we told out mothers!

    Today things are different. Computers make is easy to write down our recipes and share them with friends and family members over the Internet. However it is important to remember that cooking has a language of its own. It is a language of ingredients and measurements and directions. I believe the most important of these is measurements. If we did not have standard measurements for cooking, “T” could be a teaspoon, a tablespoons, a thimble full or a truck load! Here are a list of Standard Measures Abbreviations commonly used in recipes.

    teaspoon……………………… tsp.
    tablespoon…………………… tbsp. or T.
    cup…………………………….. c.
    quart…………………………… qt.
    ounce…………………………. oz.
    pint…………………………….. pt.
    gallon…………………………. gal.
    inch…………………………….. in.
    pound………………………….. lb.
    milliliter…………………………. ml
    liter……………………………….. L
    milligram……………………….. mg
    gram……………………………… g
    kilogram ……………………….. kg
    millimeter……………………… mm
    centimeter…………………….. cm
    meter……………………………. m
    Celsius…………………………… C
    Fahrenheit……………………. F

    Another important thing about standard measurements is that they don’t work if you don’t use them! Including an ingredient in your recipe without a specific amount is likely to leave someone trying the recipe for the first time scratching their head and wondering what to do. Remember know one will know unless you include it in your recipe.

    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 Now Offers Hard Cover Option

    Family Cookbook Project Now Offers Hard Cover Option

    They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, however most people do. Family Cookbook Project announces a new, upgraded cookbook cover.  You can now select a hardcover binding that includes the name of the cookbook on the spine.

    A hardcover option has been a popular request from many of our editors and you can now select that option for your cookbook under Layout & Design, Binder & Lamination Options.

    A hardcover can be applied to either an 8 1/2 x 11 cookbook or our standard 8 ½ x 5 ½ cookbook. All of our existing covers are available for hardcovers as well as custom covers that the editors design.

    The addition of a hardcover will impact the price of your cookbook by about six dollars per cookbook.  Shipping may be a bit higher with the added weight, too.

    The hardcover binding has a page limit of 250 pages. This is usually more than enough for most cookbooks to print all of your best recipes.  Let us know what you think!

     

  • When To Use A Multi-Part Recipe

    When To Use A Multi-Part Recipe

    Have you ever had a cake recipe that really needed a specific frosting? Or a meat recipe that required a special sauce? Wouldn’t it be great if a a recipe could have sub recipes attached to keep them together?

    Many of our editors have asked for the ability to have multiple sections or steps in recipes. We like to listen and have added it! Now you can have up to 5 “sub” recipes or steps within a recipe, each with its own set of ingredients and directions. Example? You have Carrot Cake and you want a section for the “Cake” with its ingredients and directions, then “Cream Cheese Frosting” with another set of ingredients and directions.

    To use this feature, simply go to Add Recipe or Edit an existing recipe. First check the box for “Show subtitle and make a multi-part recipe” right under the contributor field. This will add a field for sub-recipe title.

    Using our example above, here is where you would add your carrot cake ingredients and directions.

    Next, click on the green button to “Add new sub recipe”. This will add fields for a second set of sub recipe title, ingredients and directions for your Cream Cheese Frosting.

    You can add up to five sub recipes for your overall recipe.

    When you are done, make sure to click on the green button on the bottom of the page to save your recipe before moving on to your next recipe.

     

    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!

  • How to Best Serve Oysters

    How to Best Serve Oysters

    If you’ve ever been to Wellfleet OysterFest, you’ve seen thousands of people enjoying freshly opened Wellfleet Oysters by the bushel full – served on paper plates. While this might work for this huge event, there are better ways to serve them at home.

    The difficulty of serving Wellfleet oysters is their non-uniform rounded bottom shape. Rarely will one have a flat bottom that allows the oyster meat and liqueur to stay in the shell. So there are a number of ways to present your oysters that will overcome this challenge.

    • Crushed Ice – Oysters on the half-shell should be served chilled. The best way to do that is to serve them on a bed of crushed ice. Most of us don’t have an ice machine at home that can churn out crushed ice on demand, but if you have a food processor, you’re in business. If you don’t have a food processor, you can try crushing ice in a blender or by hand with a mallet.  Once you have the needed ice, place it evenly in a rimmed bowl or serving dish. Add some salt to the ice which will help it not to melt as fast. Finally place your oysters onto the ice and you’re ready to serve.
    • Rock Salt – You can serve oysters on a bed of rock salt. Rock salt won’t melt like ice and can be used again and again if you save it. Like the ice, you can place it evenly in a rimmed bowl or serving dish and nestle the oysters onto the salt. The other option is to create small individual piles of salt and place an oyster on each one.
    • Aluminum Foil – You can serve oysters on a crinkled piece of aluminum foil. This is a great way to hold your oysters while you are shucking and it can make an effective low-cost presentation, especially if you have a lot of oysters to pass around.
    • Oyster Plate – Buy an Oyster plate. Wellfleet has many wonderful gift stores that offer many oyster related items. One popular item is an oyster plate with individual rounded areas that typically holds six oysters. It’s best to have a couple of these plates available to serve your Wellfleet oysters.

     

    Bill Rice is the author of The Wellfleet Oyster Cookbook and 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, Instgram, YouTube and Pinterest!

  • It’s Time To Start Thinking About Christmas

    It’s Time To Start Thinking About Christmas

    There is a reason why 90% of the cookbooks we print are submitted in late November and early December. Everyone knows that family cookbooks make great Christmas gifts! Everyone wants something personal and special to give to loved ones at the holidays and a family cookbook is makes the perfect gift.

    Why is Family Cookbook Project telling you this in August? Well cookbooks don’t just happen by themselves, they need to be have recipes entered, professionally design covers selected and everything proofread before they are submitted for printing.

    The time it takes to have your cookbook printed and shipped also more than doubles just before the holidays because of the sheer volume. So now is the time to put your efforts into your cookbook and have it completed and submitted for printing by the time September rolls around.

     

     

    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!

  • Unclutter Your Kitchen By Starting With Your Recipes

    Unclutter Your Kitchen By Starting With Your Recipes

    How many cookbooks do you have?

    For most of us can love to cook, collecting cookbooks is a fact of life. We are always looking for the next great recipe and publish cookbooks are often a great resource.

    However for many of us there are only a handful of go to recipes in any given cookbook. They sit in our kitchen, taking up space, waiting for the time we need to make that one recipe.

    Well here’s a way two clean out your kitchen from all those cookbooks and put those recipes into a single, easy to use source for your favorite cookbook recipes – a compilation cookbook.

    Since a premium membership with family cookbook project allows you to create multiple cookbooks at the same time, it is easy to create a special cookbook dedicated to the recipes that are in all of your other cookbooks.

    When adding the recipe to your compilation cookbook, you can use the contributor field to list the cookbook where you originally found the recipe.

    You should also be sure to mark your recipe private so it is not shared outside of your own cookbook account.

    Family cookbook project also offers a handy recipe transfer tool for when you want to move some of those compilation recipes into your main cookbook without having to type them a second time.

    Once you have entered your go to recipes into your compilation cookbook, you can then remove the original cookbook from your kitchen, freeing up space, and find a bookshelf somewhere else in the house where are you can collect your cookbooks without taking up kitchen space.

     

    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!

  • A New Take On Recipe Categories

    A New Take On Recipe Categories

    Recipe categories help us organize our recipes in an easy to browse format within your family cookbook.

    By default, we offer eight standard recipe categories that are perfect for the majority of cookbook editors.

    List default recipe categories

    We also give you the ability to create your own categories and add them to the existing categories or to create subcategories which helps to refine the Recipes even further.

    But do you have to organize by food type? Absolutely not!

    We have seen our editors organize their recipes by many different formats other than food types.

    People – One popular way is to organize by person. When recipes are tribute to great past cooks in the family, you can have each category named for a specific person or even family. You then can use subcategories to further organize the recipes.

    Meal – Another way people organize recipes is by meal. When organizing buy breakfast, lunch, dinner you often will get editors who use multi part recipes to list the entrées and the side dishes that go with it.

    Holidays – Another popular way is to have categories for each holiday. We all have certain recipes that tend to come out only at specific holidays. By putting together a cookbook that lists all of the Thanksgiving, Christmas, family reunion, Valentine’s Day and other holiday recipes in one place, you know exactly where to go to prepare for that holiday.

    Season – another way to organize your recipe is by seasons. Some recipes are too heavy to be eaten during the summer and others have fresh ingredients that are not available in the winter.

    No matter how you organize your cookbook, family cookbook project makes it easy. We also offer the ability to create multiple cookbooks and transfer existing recipes into new cookbooks to help you make your cookbook publishing experience outstanding.

     

     

    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!