Create Your Family Cookbook
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You can type your cookbook on your computer and take to the local print shop for printing and binding. There are also companies that specialize in producing your family cookbook - see the link list below.
Ask relatives to e-mail you special family recipes.
The most important thing is to do it! Make it fancy and professional. Or let it be a family project and let your children help create your cookbook and simply place the pages in 3 ring binders or folders.
Attention Scrapbookers! -- this is a perfect scrapbook project!
Our family cookbook is well-loved by all of us. It is my hope that you will start creating your own today!
PS: Make some extra copies. Over 20 years later, we still ask Betty for reprints for wedding gifts and hostess gifts and special gifts for our friends.
PPS: Click Here to write and sell your own cookbook!
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Betty's Introduction to the Tate Family Cookbook
Betty wrote a beautiful introduction to our cookbook! In fact, when our father died, this was read at his funeral -- a great description of our family -- and yes, there were giggles and snickers throughout the church as folks remembered with us! Thank you, Betty! This is indeed a treasure!Hummingbirds and butterflies...beautiful flowers...the wide mouthed frog...Camp Cripple Creek...Turquoise eye shadow...gin rummy...the old blacktop table...Tab...Dancing....the Jockey Lot....killing golfs...the beach...First verse...Second Verse...Third verse...Fourth verse....Clemson vs Georgia and Georgia vs Clemson...Hand-me-downs and pass-arounds...the sock drawer...needlepoint and cross stitch...toddy time...Wild hog sausage...antiques, collectibles and stuff...dogs and cats and horses and birds and a bunny...Pendleton Presbyterian Church...swimming in "the pool"...Mac's Drive-In...SINGING, camp songs, Sunday School songs, old favorites. The Lanai...Miles and Crenshaws...Molly Brown...Coin disappearing up dad's coat sleeve...Miss Majorette...the Pig Roast...telling jokes. Let me see THE watch...Christmastime in old Pendleton...Cheerleading, baseball, studying, golf, gymnastics, horseback riding..."Miss Ethel"...Sweet Singing Bird...Get the waxed paper for the slide. Dishcloth chase...cherry Cokes at Evans'...moving...art...tailgating at Clemson...eating the picnic ten minutes out of Lafayette...my mug...bargain hunting...Anderson Hilton...relatives...trailers...weddings...Great food, and more great food (especially homemade vegetable soup and cornbread!)...loving and caring...
as recalled by Miss Home Ec
Include Personal Notes and Memories in Your Introduction
I included Betty's introduction to give you a guideline for your introduction. Now it's your turn! Write something relevant to your family. I am very aware that some of the introduction shown here will not make sense to you. And that's the point. These are "our" family memories, "our" private jokes, "our" memories. And yet the list itself is a family treasure. A crazy, funny list of things that mean a lot to us. (For example, our dad referred to the hospital as "the Anderson Hilton" -- he spent much time there in his senior years.) Your family has similar sayings and memories. Record those! This is the writing that makes your family cookbook unique! Your cookbook should make you smile, help you remember foods from your childhood, and be a treasure to pass on to your children and their children. Make it fun! 
Recipe For A Cookbook: How To Write, Publish, And Promote Your Cookbook
Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 07/06/2009) 
More family cookbook ideas on-line!
- Family Cookbooks - Preserve Those Treasured Recipes - Cooking/Organization Articles - Recipes Today
- Family Cookbooks - Preserve Those Treasured Recipes - Cooking/Organization Articles - Recipes Today
- Family Cookbook Software Prints Your Cookbook at Home.
- Family cookbook software prints a cookbook at home using any of 27 different templates. Matilda's Fantastic Cookbook Software makes it easy for families, churches and fundraisers.
- Download Free Trial of Cooks Palate
- Download a free trial of Cooks Palate cookbook software. Cooks Palate cookbook software is for those interested in organizing recipes and creating cookbooks for home, school, fundraising, professional promotions and much more.
- Why Make a Family Cookbook?
- Creating an Heirloom: Writing Your Family's Cookbook is a helpful manual for your family for the creation of a family cookbook.
- Cookbook Cuisine
- Cookbook Blog by Gloria Chadwick. Gloria's book, Recipe for a Cookbook, is featured on this Squidoo lens.
Sample Recipe from the Tate Family Cookbook
Beef-O-Roni
1 pound ground beef
1 large onion chopped
Brown beef and onion in skillet, add salt and pepper to taste.
1 7 oz box macaroni (cook separately, not quite done)
Combine above in baking dish. Add some butter and one can cream of mushroom soup mixed with 1 cup of milk. Bake at 400 degrees for 20 to 30 minutes.
Ideas and thoughts!
Have fun with your cookbook and make it unique!
At the end of our cookbook, Betty has a small list of hints. It looks like this:
Cornbread -- use whatever suits you best, but there are those of us who insist the secret to crunchy cornbread is a bit of sugar in the mixture and the bacon drippings in the skillet or muffin tins.
Didge's Corn - Use white corn if at all possible. Cut down the ear through the middle of each kernel, then cut off the cob, and scrape the cob to get out the milk and remaining pulp. Add a little bit of oil and about 2 Tablespoons of flour and about 1/2 cup water. Cook in skillet, stirring often.
Mel's Goober Coke
How many years??? Nickel Cokes!
Mel Tate, Sr.
Take one package Lance, salted peanuts. Empty into one small bottle of Coke (after a couple of swallows have been taken.) Sip with great pleasure. Chew up peanuts 'til you make peanut butter.
Remember - A family cookbook is a great gift for all of your relatives at Christmastime!
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Sausage Bean Chowder
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This chowder is wonderful on those cold winter nights! It's easy to make and serves a family of four easily. I always double the recipe and share with neighbors. Have a soup night drop in! Make 3-4 kinds of soups and chowders and invite the neighbor...
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Casserole Recipe- Broccoli-Rice-Sausage
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We were invited to a "covered dish" tonight at a friend's home. She has re-done her old family home place which was built in 1790 and wanted to have her neighbors and friends over. I immediately thought about our family favorite - The Broccoli-Rice-...
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Crock Pot Recipes from the South
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Rival bought the rights and redesigned the cooking pot in the 1970's. Oh I am so glad they did! I never have been a fancy cook. I do, however, know how to cook "country", especially Southern Country. I like foods that do not need a lot of attention...
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Congo Squares - A Tate Family Bar Cookie Tradition
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In 1954, the Tate family lived in Pendleton, SC. I can almost smell the congos in the oven. We loved to gather round and "lick the bowl" while they baked! Mama always made congos for church picnics, long trips in the car to visit relatives, and of co...
Blogs about Family Cookbooks!
- How to Make Your Own Family Cookbook - Joan's posterous
- How to Make Your Own Family Cookbook. via squidoo.com. One of my favorite "how to" lenses, this one tells all about our family cookbook. You can easily do this yourself. and it makes a super gift! ...
- Everything Rachael Ray: Rachael Ray Part of Kid Cookbook Trend
- Family Cookbook this way: "The recipes are written for adults and experienced teenagers, but each one outlines special tasks designed specifically for 'itty bitties,' like breaking spaghetti for soup or flaking tuna for a salad. ...
- japh(r): DRY RSS
- RECIPES from a Family Cookbook ./spec/eee_spec.rb:467: Whoops! It is capitalize , not upcase . Good thing I had those tests! And again, I run all of the tests (now they pass). ...
Do you have a family cookbook? Why not?
Astrieanna wrote...
This is a great idea. I know what the first recipe in mine will be -- Cheese Potato Casserole -- it's taken my Dad ages to figure out how to cook it to perfection. =)
Posted June 06, 2009
rms wrote...
Nice work! I've given you a roll onto my cookbook and recipe writing lenses.
Posted February 19, 2009
julcal wrote...
This is such a GREAT idea! I LOVE to cook and have thought about getting my recipes down in an organized book format. i sure wish my Grandma had done that! I can't even come close to cooking the way she did. A pinch of this, etc. Everything was by feel with her.
*****
Posted February 11, 2009
loveslife wrote...
I have been sort of working on a family cookbook for years without finishing it!!
You have inspired me to do just that! My daughters are anxiously waiting for it!
I've lost both my grandmothers but I managed to capture their famous family recipes before they left us, it really needs to be put to print! Thank you!!
Posted February 03, 2009
BigGirlBlue wrote...
It's funny but for the last year I've been thinking about putting all my usual recipes in a cookbook and printing it a LuLu or some where to have them all in one place.
Posted January 16, 2009
OhMe wrote...
Congratulations. This lens is now one of the top ten lenses in the South Carolina Group. Great Work
Posted January 03, 2009
ElizabethJeanAllen wrote...
Merry Christmas from the Totally Awesome Lenses Group.
Lizzy
Posted December 23, 2008
enslavedbyfaeries wrote...
This is something that every family can appreciate and should definitely put together as a treasured part of family history. I know that some of my family's most requested and loved recipes are the ones that have been passed down by several generations. Great idea and nicely done, -as always. :)
Posted December 20, 2008
1Penny2 wrote...
I want my husband to write a family cookbook, but he's resisting the idea.
Great lens
Bj
Posted December 10, 2008
dustytoes wrote...
I do not have a family cookbook, but you are inspiring me to get going and make one! My daughter just moved out and I know she would love one! Thanks for this super lens!
Posted November 15, 2008
ElizabethJeanAllen wrote...
Welcome to the Totally Awesome Lenses Group.
Lizzy
Posted October 07, 2008
aj2008 wrote...
No, we don't have a family cook book - yet! I still have a recipe that was hand written by my Nana. Lovely lens and what a great family heirloom
Posted September 29, 2008
Gloria Chadwick wrote
Hi Joan. Just coming over to say "hi" and to tell you that you've won an award. Come on over to Cookbook Cuisine to see what it is. Hint: It's not something you can put into a cookbook, but you can definitely use it in a cookbook. :)
Posted September 21, 2008
teatree wrote...
A great lens! My mother recently wrote out all her favourite recipes in hardback books for myself and my sister, and they included all the Christmas sweets I remember from childhood.
You are right, these are family heirlooms, because so many family memories are bound up with food and celebrations involving food
Posted September 06, 2008
lemonsqueezy wrote...
Your beef-o-roni sounds delicious acutally. Great lens! Simple and fun! Thank you for sharing.
Posted September 04, 2008
EverythingMouse wrote...
What a lovely idea. I have so many recipes that I love and I know that my mother does too. We need to start this project!
Posted September 04, 2008
debnet wrote...
Another Great Lens Joan! I have some recipes gathered over the years from various family members, some not written down, just well remembered. Lensrolled to 'FAMILY HEIRLOOMS' 5 Tasty Stars for you!
Posted August 30, 2008
SewWithSarah wrote...
This is a fantastic idea!!! Thanks for the information - think I need to try putting one of these together as well. GREAT lens - five stars to you!
Posted August 29, 2008
Gloria Chadwick wrote
Hi Joan,
Great article with lots of good information! Thanks so much for including my book and a link to Amazon. My website at http://www.recipeforacookbook.com offers information about writing and publishing cookbooks, including a list of cookbook-specific printers. My blog at http://cookbookcuisine.blogspot.com talks about cookbook writing. Would it be okay if I blogged about your article and included a link?
Thanks,
Gloria
Posted August 28, 2008
a_willow wrote...
Haven't thought of that, although it's great idea!
Idea for 5*! :)
Posted August 22, 2008
Zarea wrote...
Great idea, I personally like recipes that are hand written by the person who gave them to you. I have several recipes from both of my grandmothers who are no longer living, and it makes me feel good to look at their handwriting when I am cooking their recipe!
Posted August 20, 2008
KimGiancaterino wrote...
I've been collecting my mother-in-law's recipes to do a scrapbook of her Italian specialties... hopefully by Christmas. It would be a perfect family gift. Thanks for sharing your ideas. Welcome to Culinary Favorites From A to Z.
Posted August 19, 2008
kab wrote...
At the last bridal shower I went to, inside the invitation were three recipe cards and a note requesting a family recipe. At the shower they were all put into a pretty recipe and presented to the bride. It came out really nice.
Posted August 17, 2008
ElizabethJeanAllen wrote...
In the last few years my husband has taken over the kitchen. He is a great cook. I've told him to write a cookbook but he says no. Even though he's changed the recipes, he said they were not his.
Great lens
Lizzy
Posted August 15, 2008
caribbean wrote...
Great Lens. A family cookbook is a great project to start. My brother and I go at it every month its fun once in awhile I even bring out Grandma's cookbook and let him see it.
Posted August 14, 2008
NZgurugirl wrote...
Hey there, I thought about doing this for my huge family! My grandmas are both getting on in age, and it would be a wonderful way for everyone to have a book with memories (not to mention secret recipes!). Check out my lens onPlease check out my first lens, Fab New Zealand Baking Recipes if you love baking and want to try some of our families recipes!
Posted August 13, 2008
NZgurugirl wrote...
Hey there, I thought about doing this for my huge family! My grandmas are both getting on in age, and it would be a wonderful way for everyone to have a book with memories (not to mention secret recipes!). Check out my lens onPlease check out my first lens, Fab New Zealand Baking Recipes if you love baking and want to try some of our families recipes!
Posted August 13, 2008
Lawra wrote...
I too have a collection of family favourites with happy memories - timely reminder to act now and print them up for all the family to share. Thanks for the great idea.
Posted August 12, 2008
Joan4 wrote...
Thank you all for your comments! and KK, you come on anytime, the latch string's out and the dog's tied up, lol, but I am a country cook -- nothing fancy and lots of cans and microwave stuff! My sisters are the good cooks and my mama was a super cook! My daughter, thankfully, takes after the 3 of them! She's a great cook! maybe she will feed us for your visit! lol
Posted August 11, 2008
KarenKay wrote...
If I made a cookbook of my own recipes it would be about one line: Open can, heat, enjoy~!
I am definitely not a cook, so I appreciate those who are!
Someday I'm gonna visit you Moon, and take a taste of that wonderful cuisine!
Great lens! Thanks Moon!
KK
Posted August 11, 2008
Carol Wingert wrote
Joan, I love the idea. Especially put in the "secret" family recipes!!! I can remember some of my grandmother's cooking, and I can almost make it taste the same. Of course back then (I am now 53), she used a "pinch of this, a pinch of that, a hand full of, etc. But I'm going to do it!!!!
Thanks for the idea!
Carol Wingert
Http://www.mygreenmug.org
Posted August 10, 2008
mukunda22 wrote...
Joan, I have all the family recipes in a metal box--
Hmmm--better get moving and follow your instructions in this lens!!
Posted August 10, 2008
CCGAL wrote
My husband's grandmother was the State Winner in Montana in the cooking contest sponsered by the gas stove company in the early 30's. I have her cookbooks, lucky me, and I've got the one with all of the state winner's recipes in it. However, even more precious than that, I have the cookbook she got the original recipe from with all her little margin notes showing the various ways she tweaked it. Haven't actually put together a family cookbook, but it's on my list of things to do.
Another great lens, by the way! KUDOS!
Janelle
Posted August 10, 2008
Kathie wrote
Oh, yessss!! I have created a collection of "My Favorite Recipes"..."scrapbook-style"...with a photo of the family member or friend who has hand-written the recipe. Then I added my comments about the memories I associate with the person and his/her recipe on each page.
Posted August 10, 2008
Betty Tate DeLorme wrote
What a thrill to see The Tate Family Cookbook captured here and challenging others to create one! I was touched by this lens, and recall vividly the fun that went into it!
Once again, you get "gold stars."
Posted August 10, 2008
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