Your family's recipes, made into a real book.
Family Crumbs gives everyone a gentle way to write down — or simply tell — their recipes and the stories behind them, one at a time. We gather it all and turn it into a keepsake hardcover the whole family will treasure.
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Three happy little steps.
You invite the family
Tell us who to collect from: grandma, grandpa, mom, anyone. We send each of them a warm, friendly prompt.
They share, their way
They click a link and fill in a simple form. Type it, paste it, or snap a photo of a handwritten card. Five minutes!
You get a book
We turn it all into a beautiful hardcover — recipes, stories, photos, names — and ship it to your door.
A gift, not software.
No app for grandma 📱
An email and a link. That's it. Works on any phone, no account, no downloads.
A real book, not a PDF 📖
A proper printed hardcover that sits on the shelf for fifty years, not a file that gets lost.
Every story, kept 💛
Each recipe comes with the cook's own words: who taught them, when they make it, why it matters.
Honest pricing 🎁
$60 a year while you collect, $79 per printed hardcover — paid only when you print. No per-person fees, and finished books never need a subscription.
It comes together, one recipe at a time.
Family Crumbs isn't a single form to fill — it's a living collection. Relatives add their recipes whenever a memory strikes, and you watch the book fill up right from your dashboard.
No nagging, no spreadsheets. We send the gentle reminders, and you just watch the pages add up.
Demo: family members are adding recipes to a shared cookbook. Eighteen recipes gathered so far, with one still being written.
Start saving recipes today.
A handful of small, free resources you can use right now, no account needed. Each one is a gentle first step toward saving your family's recipes.
The Lost Recipe Quiz
Five honest questions estimate how many of your family's recipes are at risk of being lost, and what it would take to save them.
Try it free →Questions Worth Asking
Build a personalized list of questions to ask a parent or grandparent about their cooking — ready for your next family dinner.
Try it free →Recipe Card Digitizer
Snap a photo of a handwritten recipe card and get back clean, editable text. Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
Try it free →Mini-Book Maker
Collect up to three recipes and preview them in the real Family Crumbs book template, then download your digital mini-book.
Try it free →Recipe Card Maker
Type in a recipe and download a beautifully typeset, printable recipe card — a keepsake you can pin, print, or tuck in a gift.
Try it free →Vintage Recipe Translator
Oleo? A gill of sweet milk? A moderate oven? Translate the language of old recipe cards into today's ingredients and temperatures.
Try it free →Story Recorder
Interview questions on screen, recording on your device. Capture the stories in their own voice — nothing is ever uploaded.
Try it free →Cookbook Size Estimator
Slide a few honest numbers and see how big your family's cookbook would actually be — pages, spine, and heft.
Try it free →Everything for your first book.
Your first book, finished within a year: $139 total — $60 to collect, $79 to print. There's nothing else to pay, ever.
Reserve your bookSimple refunds: your $60 back within 30 days (as long as nothing's gone to print), books refundable until they print. If we don't launch, you get every penny back. 🙂
Be one of our
founding families.
We're launching in the coming months. Pre-order today, support a small team, and start collecting the day we open the doors.
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