How to Gift your Family Recipes

Looking for a great gift this holiday season? I am sharing how to gift your family recipes so your children, parents, siblings and other family members can continue making family favorites for years to come.

What is your favorite recipe that your grandma made?

When you think about it, does it make you feel a certain way?

Does it make you long for the holidays or miss someone who is no longer here with us?

Is it something that has been handed down from generation to generation?

Or do you have recipes that you make that your kids LOVE and look forward to having every holiday?

If this has stopped you in your tracks and taken you down memory lane, then this is the perfect thing for you to think about gifting this year!

With the digital age we are in, I feel like family recipe keepsakes have become nothing more than nostalgia.

Let’s change that!!

Let’s get those family recipes written down and gifted to our favorite people on the planet so they can enjoy these recipes for years to come.

Imagine having Grandma’s handwritten recipes all in one place to hand down to your children.

Ways to gift your family recipes

1 Wooden Box with leather strap

2 Flower Garden Binder

3 Black Floral Binder

4 White Beaded Box

5 Sage Green Checkered Binder

6 Nana’s Recipes Box

7 Lemon Box

8 Linen Box

9 Farmhouse White Box

10 Chalkboard Binder Black and White

11 Gather Wreath Binder

12 Initial Wooden Box

These were some of my favorites and there are different styles for everyone. And they all come with recipe cards inside!!

Things to look for in a recipe binder

• The recipe binder can lay flat on the counter when using it so it is easy to use.
• Three rings to make it easy to reorganize and move around recipe sheets into different categories.
• Protective sheets are perfect to protect your recipe cards or recipe sheets from messy hands in the kitchen.
• Category dividers.

Things to look for in a recipe box

• Category dividers
• Card protectors
• A slot to set the card on top of the box or onto the lid so it is easy to use the recipe card.
•  Large enough cards to write on and also be able to read.
• It is aesthetically pleasing for display on a shelf or counter.

How to preserve and gift your family recipes

You can copy them onto new cards in your own handwriting or type them out onto a recipe card template and print them out, but if they are handwritten by someone special then that will remove a lot of the sentimental value of the card.

If you are saving just the one card for yourself or someone else, then place it into a protective sleeve.

If you are wanting to duplicate the card for several people, I suggest scanning cards into your computer and printing them off onto a nice linen cardstock in medium weight and then placing them in a protective sleeve.

How to gift your family recipes in digital form

What if you aren’t willing to give up the ease of having everything digital?

I suggest scanning old recipes from Mom and Grandma and creating a recipe file with separate folders for categories that you can access on your iPad or phone.

Or you can create a simple google doc.

That way you have the original card, but it is digitized.

And with different categories you can add new recipes you find to the correct folder.

BUT, I also found you THIS AMAZING DIGITAL RECIPE BOOK you could gift to someone complete with digital stickers!  It is SO cool!!!

Ok, that is my take on how to gift your family recipes!

I would love to hear how you have preserved YOUR family recipes in the comments below.

I hope this inspires you to create a once-in-a-lifetime gift for your family and it is enjoyed for generations to come.

If you’re looking for more inspiration on handmade gifts, try these beautiful handmade ornaments!

And remember, you can do it yourself, but let’s do it together!