The Family Cookbook Project

Year: 2023

  • How To Share Your Family Cookbook Recipes

    How To Share Your Family Cookbook Recipes

    One of the real benefits of collecting all of your recipes in your online cookbook on FamilyCookbookProject.com is to be able to share them very easily with friends and family.

    Say you have friends over and they really like your split pea soup and want the recipe. All you need to do is go to your cookbook account either on your desktop computer or even on your mobile Mobile phone or tablet and pull up the recipe.  Now all you have to do is choose how you want to give it to him.

    Email – In the upper right hand corner, you’ll see a box marked email a recipe. Enter your friend’s email here and send them your recipe. It’s that easy!

    Posted on Facebook – Wow your friend might like your recipe, so will other friends. You can select the Facebook icon and post your recipe to your Facebook page to be seen by calling your friends. Especially if you’ve been adding photos to your recipes, your posts will really stand out and be appreciated by lots of your friends and family.

    Posted on Pinterest – Here’s another way to share your recipes if they have photos attached. Pinterest was built around sharing photos and when you share one of your recipes on this social media platform, the photo becomes the pin and people who click on it will see your recipe.

    Print your recipe – If your friend simply wants a printed copy of your recipe, it is easy to select the print icon and simply print them a copy and give it to them.

    Give them a cookbook – Printing your family cookbook allows you to share all of your recipes with friends and family and is a great gift from the heart.

    You also might want to suggest to your friends that they create their own family cookbook account so they can share their recipes as well!

     

     

     

    Bill Rice is Founder and 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 and the Cape Cod Cocktail Cookbook (Available on Amazon), 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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  • New Update To Family Cookbook Mobile App Available

    On of the benefits of having a FamilyCookbookProject.com account is that it is easy to take with you! The Family Cookbook Project online recipe box allows users to browse and use their recipes. Tools include our blog at your fingertips, latest recipes from our recipe database, notes for in the kitchen, a tip calculator and more! Users can enter their recipes at www.FamilyCookbookProject.com and have access anywhere!

    Recently we have upgraded the app to include additional features that were only available on our website. They include:

    • Access to our award winning blog
    • Rotate photo
    • Recipe-to-recipe navigation
    • Bigger buttons to return to lists/menu
    • Search for recipes

     

    If you already have the app on your mobile device, simply update your app like you would any app.

    If you do not yet have it, use one of the links below to get it and take FamilyCookbookProject.com with you!

    Apple iPhone or iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/family-cookbook-project-recipes/id1128570224?ls=1&mt=8

    Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app_fcbrecipes1.layout

     

     

    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, Twitter, and Pinterest!

     

  • Family Cookbook Project App on Apple is Temporarily Unavailable

    Family Cookbook Project App on Apple is Temporarily Unavailable

    Our award-winning Apple/iOS app is undergoing an upgrade – which is great!  Unfortunately, while Apple was making us jump through hoops, the app was offline via the Apple Store for a day.  The app is now back on line with the first of the upgraded features and a new look and feel.

    Please go to the Apple App store and update your app if it has not done so automatically. This will allow you full functionality to the app once again.

  • Help Us With A Review Of Family Cookbook Project

    Help Us With A Review Of Family Cookbook Project

    In the online world, customer reviews are one of the most powerful tools to help people who do not have experience with a product to find out if it might be right for them. Positive reviews can really make a difference in attracting new customers to the Family Cookbook Project and we need your help.

    Would you kindly take a moment of your time and leave a positive review for us on the rating services below. This will help us attract new users to our site and allow us to continue to offer expanded services and programming to our existing customers.

    Thank you for your support.

     

    Bill Rice and Chip Lowell

    Publishers, Family Cookbook Project

  • How To Use The Custom Cover Arranger Tool Video

    How To Use The Custom Cover Arranger Tool Video

    You have full creative control on your cover text and photo layouts with the Cover Arranger Tool.  Go to Layout & Design>Select Cover.  You’ll see a link/button for “Custom Cover Arranger Tool.”

    You will see your cover as it will look in your printed book, sized according to your settings on a layout screen.  You can edit your title and subtitle text, fonts and location.  On the right side of the screen, select the cover item to “edit” in the drop down box.  You can move them around and resize them any way you’d like.  If you want your photos to retain their correct aspect ratio, check the little box on each photo’s lower left.  They can also be layered one on top of another.  You’ll see that when moving a photo, it automatically comes to the top/front of all others.  When done, click the “Save” button.

    You can also manage your cover photo settings on the right.  In the select box, choose “Picture”.  Click [Edit Photo] to set things like border style and color-B/W.  Those will be added normally in your printed book on the photos.

    If you wish to reset your cover text and photos to the default, check the boxes next to the Save button and click Save.

     

     

    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.

  • Food Related Holidays – June 2023

    Food Related Holidays – June 2023

    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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    Source: National Day Calendar

     

    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.

    Follow Family Cookbook Project on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest!

  • Favorite Recipes From Grandma Preserved

    Favorite Recipes From Grandma Preserved

    They go by many names – Grandma, Nonna, Oma, Granny, and Gram to name a few.

    Their cooking influenced not only what we ate, but what the entire family enjoyed.

    Our Family Cookbook Editors have preserved some of their grandmother’s recipes so that they can be passed down to future generations and help their memories live on forever.

    Here are over 1,000 recipes From our grandmothers for you to enjoy.

     

    Be sure to check out  Granny Peatie’s Scottish Shortbread

    This is a recipe I found in my own Gram Helen’s recipe box from her husband’s grandmother in St Andrews, Scotland back in the late 1800s. I now make it at least several times a year and every time I do, I think of my Great-Great-Granny Euphemia Summers Peatie.

     

     

    Bill Rice is Founder and 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 and the Cape Cod Cocktail Cookbook (Available on Amazon), 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.

    Follow Family Cookbook Project on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest!

  • How to Make a One-Of-A-Kind Wedding Cookbook

    How to Make a One-Of-A-Kind Wedding Cookbook

    Here’s an idea for a truly unique wedding gift for a special couple – a printed cookbook filled with the bride and groom’s favorite family recipes and photos. It’s a great way to bring both families together before the wedding, makes a wonderful bridal shower theme, can be used as a wedding favor and gets the new couple cooking with family favorite recipes.

    Here’s how to create your own wedding cookbook:

    It starts with a bridal shower.

    One thing every new bride needs is great recipes to feed her family, especially with everyone needing to stay at home so much more these days. Both families as well as friends can help get this started by contributing recipes as part of a bridal shower!

    When you send out your bridal shower invitations, include a link to your FamilyCookbookProject.com cookbook, use the Invitation Tool and add everyone’s email. This will send everyone a link that will allow them to contribute their recipes. Set a deadline for entering recipes about three weeks from when the invitations are sent. Remember people will always wait until the deadline!

    Get both of the mother’s to contribute the most recipes if possible. This way both the bride and groom will have lots of recipes that they grew up with in their cookbook. Using Family Cookbook Project’s Custom Categories Tool, you can even create a special category for each mom’s recipes.

    As the recipes are being entered, start planning how the cookbook will look.

    Select a cover – Family Cookbook Project offers several cookbook covers specifically for bridal cookbooks or wedding cookbooks. You also can create a custom cover with the name of the cookbook and a photo of the couple.

    Write an introduction – The best bridal cookbooks will have an introduction written by the individuals giving the bridal shower. An introduction can be used to wish the couple well wishes and to talk about the importance of family.

    Add Photos – Photos can help bring your cookbook to life. You can add photos of the lucky couple on top of recipes, or create custom pages to highlight photos of the bride and groom as they were growing up and while they were dating.

    Print your cookbook – Make sure you give yourself enough time to order your cookbooks and have them printed, at least 3-4 weeks if possible. Be sure to order enough copies for each attendee as well as several extra copies for family members that can not attend the event.

    For the event, make some of the dishes from the bridal cookbook and serve them at the event. Include a place card with the dish name and include the page number from the cookbook.

    Finally, if you are looking for a great wedding favor, you can print additional cookbooks and give them to everyone attending the wedding!

     

    Bill Rice is Founder and 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 and the Cape Cod Cocktail Cookbook (Available on Amazon), 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.

    Follow Family Cookbook Project on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest!

  • How To Select A Family Cookbook Cover Video

    How To Select A Family Cookbook Cover Video

    This video shows how to work with your cover options when creating your own customer cookbook.

     

    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.familycookbooCoverskproject.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.

  • Dozen New Cookbook Covers Available

    Dozen New Cookbook Covers Available

    FamilyCookbookProject.com, the leading online cookbook publishing platform, is pleased to announce 12 new professionally designed cookbook covers are now available to our editors.

    A cookbook’s cover is the first thing people will see and it’s important to make a good impression. That is why we are constantly adding new cover options for families and fundraisers creating cookbooks.

     

    Here are the new covers:

     

    Dinner Plate 1
    London Calling
    Pastel Flowers 1
    Pastel Flowers 2
    Family Tree 2
    Family Tree 1

    Pink Ribbon 3
    Veggies 1
    Reception
    Octopus Chef
    Fruit Face

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     





























    While many of our editors like to create their own covers, FamilyCookbookProject.com is committed to having the most cover options available anywhere on the Internet.  You’ll be seeing new covers and divider coming much more regularly in the future.

     

    Bill Rice is the Co-Publisher at Family Cookbook Project and CookbookFundraiser.com which helps individuals, churches, schools, teams and other fundraising groups create cherished personalized cookbooks using the power of the Internet to meet funding needs. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest!