This year, 2026, is the year of the book! We are excited to share ideas on how to publish your favorite family recipes so that you can give the gift that keeps on giving: A Family Recipe Cookbook. Here at Northeast Kingdom Press, we are helping families with our self-publishing editing services.
We want to make sure that everyone has a chance to leave something behind for the next generation. This could be your favorite poems written in an old journal, finally seeing the light of day in paperback and ebook format, or maybe it is a paperback book of old family recipes that are starting to lose their readability, for they have been passed down generation to generation on handwritten index cards.
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Whatever it is that you want to see published this year, we are excited to help you become a part of the year of the book with a newly published piece of content. You can choose to only share your paperback family recipes cookbook with beloved family members, or have it on a distribution list to book stores all over the world, and online to sell your favorite family recipes to other families.
The best way to transform your family recipes into a cookbook is to hire a ghostwriter, editor, and publisher who can help with the entire process from start to finish. The recipes will need to be put into a format that is friendly for publishing in the format you desire, whether it is eBook or paperback. A popular size for these types of publications is a 6-inch by 9-inch format, but our Word documents or similar programs often default to an 8 by 11-inch size in the USA.
This is why having an editor, such as one from our team here at Northeast Kingdom Press, is an excellent way to make the process of converting beloved family recipes to a professional publication easy, so that you can feel confident that the family recipe traditions will live on past your lifetime and the next.
The first step to making a paperback cookbook of your favorite family recipes is to hire someone to type the recipes up into a document or type them yourself. If you are hiring a writer to put the data into a Google Document or Word Document, then you will want to make sure that you have access to every recipe and/or photograph of the recipes on hand.
When working virtually with a company like Northeast Kingdom Press, you will need to mail or scan copies of the recipes and photos into a folder via Dropbox or Google Drive. You can discuss this option with the person you hire to do the process. We believe it is easier to hire someone to process all of the recipes because it would take the average person far too many hours in the day to complete this task while also living life, and working their regular job.
If you do have the time, then consider gathering all of the recipes and/or photographs of each recipe into a folder, so that you can easily grab and type each option up with ease. If you are hiring someone from our team at Northeast Kingdom Press to do this task, then discuss your wishes with them, and our team can tell you exactly how to make this process as simple as possible for you so that you do not lose the recipes, nor lose too much time in getting this project done as a holiday gift idea.
Why put family recipes into a published cookbook ?
There are many reasons why we started offering this service to families all over the United States, and we have heard many reasons for why people want to put their family recipes into a published cookbook. Sometimes it is about making sure older recipes are not lost from generation to generation, other times our clients have said that they enjoy the idea of gifting this family recipe cookbook to their adult kids who can then hand down the recipes to their children, and so on.
Each generation will have new technology and new recipes or ways of living, but using self-publishing editing services to put your family recipes into a paperback cookbook format (or hardcover if you choose) gives our clients hope that their family history will continue on for future more tech-savvy generations. If nothing else, it warms our clients’ hearts when they get to wrap up their family recipes cookbook and gift it to their beloved adult kids.
Most of us want to hand down something to our next generation, an item or skill that can live beyond our lifetime. When you opt to use Northeast Kingdom Press self-publishing editing services to put your family recipes into a published cookbook, you are doing just that – giving the gift that keeps giving while keeping family history alive.
Thank you for such an inspiring and heartfelt guide. Your steps for turning cherished family recipes into a published cookbook make what once felt overwhelming totally doable. I especially appreciated the tips on organizing content, preserving personal stories alongside each dish, and navigating the publishing process with clarity and confidence. This post has me excited to start preserving our own family favorites in a way that honors both food and tradition.
What a meaningful project! I love your tips for turning family recipes into a cherished cookbook – so inspiring to preserve food memories.
I think creating a cookbook of family recipes would be amazing. I know there are many I want to be sure to keep in my family. And having them available all at once would be incredible! This would be the best gift ever.
This would be such a great way to get family recipes on paper to save for future generations! Thanks for sharing your tips, it would be nice to put this together.
this is such a tempting project you have presented here.. i have long thought to put together the recipes my mom, my mil, and other family members have passed on to me..
Sounds like such a lovely idea. It would make a wonderful gift for my kids when older.
I’ve never considered making a family cookbook. But it makes me sad that my mom’s recipe box went missing. I would have loved to share all of her recipes.
This is such a great idea, I have a sister who loves to cook, and she has mom’s recipes on many cards in a shoebox, I would love to have a cookbook published for her with all those recipes.
This is a great idea! I would love to “immortalize” my grandma’s and mom’s recipes. To be honest, I only have them written in a small notebook. I’m happy to know that there are people who can help make this happen, even for non-writers like me.