How to Organize/Create a Family Cookbook

Cookbook Specialists Recipe App

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Cookbook Specialists Recipe App Cookbook Specialists Recipe App is a FREE Android App on Google Play. The app allows you to take photos of recipes. Cookbook Specialists will then type them into your  web account. Let’s take a look at this easy way to add recipes to your cookbook project. Setting up the Cookbook Specialists Recipe App First thing is to set up a cookbook web account at www.cookbookspecialists.com. For more information on setting up a web account you can check out our  article or  video. The username and password that you set your web account up under will be

How to Set Up Your Cookbook Account With Cookbook Specialists

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A Journey to Printing a Cookbook Starts with  Setting up a Cookbook Account The most popular option for creating a custom cookbook with Cookbook Specialists is to submit recipes through a cookbook account. Our cookbook accounts allow people to type recipes, have others type them in, or use our Android recipe capture app. Cookbook Accounts at Cookbook Specialists are always FREE and no obligation. This makes setting up a cookbook account a perfect way to give creating a cookbook a test drive. Setting up Your Cookbook Account is as Easy as 1, 2, 3 Creating your cookbook account is simple

Collecting Recipes for a Cookbook From a Group – Tips & Resources

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Have a plan for collecting recipes from a group to create your family or a fundraising cookbook. We have paper, digital, and online recipe collection options! Before You Start Collecting Recipes for Your Cookbook… Decide what categories you would like in your book. For some groups, having specific types of recipes makes your cookbook stand out more.  You can ask people to submit recipes they use on a daily basis, for special holidays, potlucks, etc. Selecting categories gives you direction on what to ask for. Examples may include appetizers, breads, main dishes, and desserts. The number of recipes will determine

Create a Cookbook – Anatomy of a Cookbook

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Create a Cookbook – A Look at the Anatomy of a Cookbook.  All books have a beginning, middle and end. That’s what we learned in school but what about cookbooks? My English teachers somehow missed the chapter on how to write a cookbook. Let’s see if we can shed light on how to create a cookbook. Cookbook Specialists has a recommended “standard” cookbook layout that fits well for most cookbook projects. Front Cover Title Page Table of Contents Personal Pages Dividers & Recipes Value Added Sections Index Sales Page Back Cover Covers Covers are the window to the soul of

Updating Old Recipes

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Grandma’s recipe is a family favorite and a must have at every reunion, but as time goes by many family recipes are lost. Preserving recipes by placing them in a family cookbook is a great way to ensure that they will be around for generations to come. However, making sure a recipe can be recreated from the original is another thing altogether. A generation or two back, many cooks measured ingredients with eyes and hands rather than measuring cups and spoons, and baking times were judged by smell and a quick peek rather than setting a timer. Today’s young cooks

Preventing and Finding Typos When Typing Recipes

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Typos can easily hide in recipes. Spell check catches misspelled words, but sometimes our subconscious or auto-correct alters our attempt at typing ‘bake’ to ‘back’. Then there are those words that no matter how hard we try, we always type them wrong. Here are some tips to help find these errors and get them corrected before submitting your cookbook order. Read everything out loud. – When reading recipes out loud we are forced to really read the words that are there. It is easy to overlook mistakes when skimming through a recipe because our mind reads the word as it