We all have our favorite recipes from Mom’s meatloaf to Gramma’s Sunday chicken, but no recipe book in the world will ever contain all the recipes you love and want.
So what do you do?
You make your own recipe book, that’s what!
It’s easy to make a recipe book with a little know-how. Here’s all you have to do to make a recipe book for yourself, your family or as a gift.
Materials to Make a Recipe Book
1 three-ring binder
Computer paper
Plastic page sleeves
Separator tabs
And of course: Your favorite recipes
Instructions to Make a Recipe Book
Step 1: Collect the Recipes for Your Recipe Book
Your first step is to collect your recipes. Whether you print them off websites or get them from your relatives, just make sure you get them. Ask your mom, grandmother, sister, aunt – whoever you know that has a recipe you love or might have a recipe you love. You can have them call them in or email them or whatever works, just as long as you have them. Can’t make a recipe book without recipes.
Step 2: Print Out Your Recipes
After you have your recipes collected, print them out. You can print out one on each page or one on the front and back or however you want them to be organized. Front and back will make it feel more like a book and will waste less paper.
As you print your recipes, you can slip them into the plastic sleeves to help protect and preserve them. You don’t want any kitchen mess to get on them while using them, and maybe one day you’ll pass the family recipe book down. You never know.
Step 3: Organize the Recipes
Now that you have your recipes, you should organize them into sections to help you find them faster later when they are in your recipe book. However you arrange them is up to you. Maybe you want sections for breakfast, lunch, dinner, deserts, etc., or maybe you want to be more specific and have sections for soups, cakes or whatever.
Step 4: Insert the Recipes
After you divide up your recipes into sections, it is time to actually put them into the recipe book. Put them into the sections that you divided them into and use the tabs to label them.
The tabs will be useful later when you want to flip through your recipes quickly.
Step 5: Decorate Your Book
If you want, you can decorate your cover, or, if you are giving it as a gift, you might want to title it and put a nice ribbon around it or some other nice way of dressing it up. Maybe you just want to wrap it up and give it as a present.
If not, then you’re done with your book!
Sources:
Personal Experience
