About the Family Cookbook Project
The Family Cookbook Project helps 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 that preserves recipes and memories for future generation. Personalized cookbooks are also used by schools, church and other groups as important fundraisers.
Do you have a lot of recipes of a specific type? Maybe you love to make cookies or pies or cakes. You can create a “mini cookbook” to organize your recipes and even share with family and friends using FamilyCookbookProject.com.
With a few as 10 recipes, you can create a single category cookbook or multiple categories within a theme.
For example, were I live, oysters plentiful and are some of the best in the world. My family eats a lot of oysters each summer and I thought it would be great to create a cookbook with just oyster recipes. It was so well received, it is now available on Amazon!
You can buy a copy of The Wellfleet Oyster Cookbook by clicking on this link.
Next, I plan on creating a BBQ mini cookbook and giving it out as gifts for Christmas to my friends and family.
To create you own mini cookbook, go to the Production Center on your editor page and select “more cookbooks”. Here you can create your own mini cookbook and even import your recipes from your main cookbook using our recipe transfer tool.
Bill Rice is Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect, preserve and share food memories by creating their own printed personal cookbooks. He is the author of The Wellfleet Oyster Cookbook (Available on Amazon) and the Cape Cod Cocktail Cookbook, both created using FamilyCookbookProject.com. He is also editor of the Donovan Family Cookbook, now it’s third printing.
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FamilyCookbookProject.com answers hundreds of emails a week with basic questions on how to do various aspects of creating a family cookbook. So we came up with the idea to put all of those answers in one place.
Welcome to the Family Cookbook Project Editor Education Center. Here you will find the answer that age-old question “How do I…”.
When you don’t know how to do something, start here and get specific instructions on how to accomplish most aspects of creating the perfect family cookbook.
You will find a link to the How To Center in the black navigation bar on every page of FamilyCookbookProject.com.
Bill Rice is Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect, preserve and share food memories by creating their own printed personal cookbooks. He is the author of The Wellfleet Oyster Cookbook (Available on Amazon) and the Cape Cod Cocktail Cookbook, both created using FamilyCookbookProject.com. He is also editor of the Donovan Family Cookbook, now it’s third printing.
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Fundraising is a fact of life for many organizations. People in the community love to help a good cause however often get tired of the same fundraisers year after year.
One new way that many churches schools and nonprofit organizations are raising funds is with a cookbook fundraiser.
A cookbook fundraiser can be very profitable and a fun community event that creates a valuable community cookbook that will be remembered for a long time.
Using a website, like cookbookfundraiser.com, makes it easy to gather recipes and design a beautiful cookbook including recipe layouts and indexes.
Here are tips for creating a cookbook fundraiser from cookbookfundraiser.com:
A successful Cookbook Project can bring a community together for a common cause. Many memorable events center around food and a cookbook will be well received.
Bill Rice is Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project and CookbookFundraiser.com, website that helps families and organizations collect and share food memories by creating their own printed personal cookbooks. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and
It seems that every day is a special day for something. Especially when it comes to our favorite (or not so favorite) foods.
FamilyCookbookProject.com created a list of special food related holidays that you may not be aware of.
For fun, pick some of your favorites and served them on their national day.
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Bill Rice is Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect, preserve and share food memories by creating their own printed personal cookbooks. He is the author of The Wellfleet Oyster Cookbook (Available on Amazon) and the Cape Cod Cocktail Cookbook, both created using FamilyCookbookProject.com. He is also editor of the Donovan Family Cookbook, now it’s third printing and is an avid genealogist tracing his family back to the 1600’s.
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As with any family project, getting everyone to contribute can be a challenge, especially if they have not seen the end product beforehand.
Here are some tips to keep your Family Cookbook Project contributors motivated:
The more the merrier – Be sure to include everyone, not just the great cooks. Everyone likes to be asked to participate and the more you invite, the more recipes you’ll likely get. To add contributors and send an email invitation, > Use the Invitation Tool
Set a reasonable deadline – Set the submission deadline on the “Project Information Editor” page, but don’t set it too far in the future. We all tend to put off whatever we can and contributing recipes is often one of those things. A month is usually enough time to give everyone to find the recipes they want to contribute and get them entered. Two things to remember: most of the recipes will come in just in time for the deadline and second, you can always extend the deadline if you want more recipes.
Send regular updates – Use the Reminder Tool to email some or all of your contributors on a regular basis. Remind them of the deadline and ask them to meet a specific goal, like “please add one or two recipes to each category”.
Target the biggest recipe boxes – Every family has a handful of people who are known for their cooking (you are most likely one of them in your family!). Send a personal message to them either using the remainder tool or reaching out by telephone, Facebook or with a personal visit. People are flattered when their skills are recognized. Let them know the cookbook would not be complete without their contributions.
Ask for specific recipes – Send a reminder to everyone asking for a specific recipe from your family’s past that will get everyone thinking of past gatherings. Include your memories of that dish or the person who created it. It might help remind everyone why putting together a family cookbook is important.
Use social media – As you add your own recipes to your family cookbook, it is easy to post them to Facebook or pin them to Pinterest. Sharing your recipes this way shows other family members that you are contributing and shows them they should as well.
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!
White space filler are images and quotes that can be added to pages in your cookbook that have a lot of blank space. Sometimes it’s nice to break up the text of a recipe with some images.
Until now, you had to select a package theme of images and had no choice within those sets. Over the years, we’ve had many requests for the ability to pick and choose images but programming wise it was difficult to implement.
Due to some advanced programming from our crack development team, you now have the ability to pick and choose which images within a package you’d like to include.
Here’s how it works:
In your editors, design center, select white space images. This will take you to a page that shows you the different packages of both images and quotations.
Pick the package that is most appealing to you and click on the save button.
Now look at that package you just selected and you’ll see a new text link that says pick and choose images. Click on that to see all of the images in that package.
Now simply unselect the images or quotes, you do not want and save. Only those which you have selected will appear in your cookbook.
If you want more than one package, you can select all images or all quotes and save. Now, when you go back to click the link to choose, you will have access to all of the images or all of the quotations in the system. Go ahead and mix-and-match to get the best set of white space filler for your particular cookbook.
Family Cookbook Project will continue to provide the best online cookbook publishing system available anywhere for you our customers.
If you’ve followed a recipe, you’ve used cooking oils. However it is easy to be overwhelmed by all the varieties and options of cooking oil. Even when you know what you are looking for it can be tough to navigate through all those bottles and labels!
First things first, what’s the purpose of using cooking oil?
Cooking oils are a type of fat and no matter what he current fad diet says, fat is a nutrient that is required in large amounts in our diet. Oil is just one way to meet our fat needs. Other ways would be using foods that are higher in fat content, like nuts, avocado, eggs, fish, etc… There are different roles of oil in our cooking… Cooking oil can add wonderful flavors and aromas (think olive oil, pumpkin seed oil, walnut oil, etc) which can balance out components like vinegar, lime juice or bitter-tasting vegetables. On top of that, oil can be used as a cooking lubricant when sautéing so that food can be cooked without sticking to itself and the pan.
In vinaigrettes, oil acts as a thickener by creating an emulsion with vinegar. Oil also adheres well to the surface of leafy vegetables allowing it to better coat and evenly distribute over the leaves causing the leaf to darken and its structure to weaken.
Cooking oils can come from a variety of sources. Cooking oils can be made from Nuts and legumes (peanut oil, coconut oil, walnut oil, soybean oil, etc.), Fruits (avocado oil, olive oil, etc.), or Seeds (canola oil, sunflower oil, grapeseed oil, flaxseed oil, etc.). Each oil can add something different to a dish and should be use
Understanding Smoke Point
Smoke point refers to the temperature where an oil starts to burn and smoke. If you go beyond an oil’s smoke point, the oil will not only have a burnt flavor but it’s beneficial nutrients (found in many unrefined oils) will be destroyed and harmful free radicals can be created.
There is a wide range of smoke points for cooking oils. Here is a guide choosing an oil for cooking.
The good news is that with so many cooking oils to choose from, many of us have one or two “go to” oils that fit most of our daily needs. However don’t be afraid to try something new every now and then. You might find something you like better!
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!
With the FamilyCookbookProject.com Publishing System, we recommend that only one person serve as Editor – “too many cooks spoil the soup” so to speak. You really need one person with full control or you cannot keep up with what might have been changed.
That said, you have the ability to promote any contributor to the level of Co-Editor. To do so, go to Communication Center and click on their name in the list. Check the box next to their user name and update. The next time they login they will have access to:
We highly recommend allowing only trusted helpers serving as co-editor.
Here is a quick tutorial video that shows you how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99NcfrI-PKM
Bill Rice is Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect, preserve and share food memories by creating their own printed personal cookbooks. He is the author of The Wellfleet Oyster Cookbook (Available on Amazon) and the Cape Cod Cocktail Cookbook, both created using FamilyCookbookProject.com. He is also editor of the Donovan Family Cookbook, now it’s third printing.
Follow Family Cookbook Project on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest!
About the Family Cookbook Project
The Family Cookbook Project helps 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 that preserves recipes and memories for future generation. Personalized cookbooks are also used by schools, church and other groups as important fundraisers.