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The Kitchen Keepsake

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A place to keep the recipes your family loves, and the people and stories that came with them. Because “a pinch of this” deserves to be written down before anyone forgets whose pinch it was.

Every Recipe Has a Story

Somewhere in your family there's a stained index card, a spiral notebook, or a recipe that exists only in someone's memory. Those are the ones worth saving.

The Kitchen Keepsake was designed to hold more than ingredients and oven temperatures. It gives you room to record who made the dish, how it came to your family, when you gathered around it, and what changed over the years.

As a former history professor, I can tell you that primary sources matter. Your grandmother's handwriting counts.

Handwritten family recipe cards on a kitchen table

Choose Your Kitchen Keepsake

Three ways to get started, whether you are collecting recipes or the stories that come with them. 

Option 1 -digital download

The Kitchen Starter

$12

A little something to get cooking.

For the cook who already has a binder - or simply wants to get started preserving family favorites.

  • 12 original divider designs in both color and black and white (24 printable pages)
  • Traditional recipe categories an seasonal selections for dividers
  • Black-and-white designs can be printed on various colors or enjoyed as coloring pages for a personal touch
  • Welcome letter with suggestions on how to create your keepsake
  • Printable PDF files to use at home
Digital download only.  No physical products included.

Get The Kitchen Starter

option 2 - binder kit

The recipe gatherer

$32

A place for all the recipes worth keeping. 

A ready-to-fill home for favorite recipes, handwritten treasures, and dishes everyone asks you to bring.

  • 2-inch, 3-ring binder with inside pockets
  • 8 wide divider tabs to organize your favorite categories or seasons, plus 10 page protectors to get you started
  • All 12 divider designs printed in both color and black and white on heavy cardstock (24 sheets)
  • Digital access to the printable divider collection - think extra coloring sheets for the children/grandchildren, with more memories to make
  • Welcome letter with suggestions on how to build your keepsake collection
A physical binder kit with printable extras. Just add your favorite recipes!

Get the Recipe Gatherer

option 3 - complete collection

The Heirloom kitchen

$60

Because the stories behind the recipes matter, too.

For the family historian, the sentimental cook, the new bride, or anyone who believes a recipe is even better when you know the story behind it


Includes everything in The Recipe Gatherer, plus:
  • 20 favorite recipes from Ginnyhoo's family kitchen, printed and with additional page protectors
  • A collection of printed keepsake pages to record the people, occasions, and memories behind family recipes (15 pages)
  • Children's recipe page, featuring wider spaces and room to draw (3 copies)
  • Additional lined pages for longer recipes, family notes, or stories that need a little more room (8 pages)
  • Digital access to the keepsake printables
  • Optional personalized binder cover with the family name or wording of your choice
A collection to begin today, add to tomorrow, and pass along someday.

Get The Heirloom Kitchen

Your Recipes, Your Way

Prefer organizing by traditional categories like Main Dishes, Breads, and Desserts? Love the idea of gathering recipes by season? Or perhaps a little of both?

The Kitchen Keepsake includes 12 divider designs so you can organize your collection in whatever way works best for your family. The physical binder kits come with 8 divider tabs to get you started, but you're certainly not limited to eight sections!

As your collection grows, you can add more tabs, print additional dividers, and make room for all those recipes you haven't discovered yet.

After all, a good family recipe collection is never really finished.

 



more than just a recipe

The story pages ask the questions you'll wish you'd asked sooner.  Because sometimes the most important ingredient isn't listed on the recipe card.

 Included in the Heirloom Kitchen collection


Who Made It

Was it Grandmother's Sunday specialty? Your father's famous chili? Or a recipe passed along by a neighbor who felt like family?

How It came to your table

Where did the recipe originate? Who taught you to make it? And what do you remember most about the person who shared it?

The memories it made

Christmas mornings, Sunday suppers, birthdays, and ordinary Tuesdays that turned out to be anything but ordinary.

A pinch of this, a handful of that

The substitutions, little adjustments, and mysterious measurements that make a family recipe uniquely yours. (Because we all know someone who measures vanilla with their heart.)

A Few Good Questions

Which collection should I choose?
If you're a DIY sort of cook with a printer and a plan, The Kitchen Starter is a wonderful place to begin.  If you'd rather have the binder and dividers ready to go, The Recipe Gatherer takes care of that setup.  And if you want the family recipes, keepsake pages, and a little extra room for the stories behind the food, The Heirloom Kitchen gives you the complete package. 
Is this a printable or a physical product?
The Kitchen Starter is a digital download you print yourself.  The Recipe Gatherer is a physical binder kit with access to printable dividers.  The Heirloom Kitchen includes the physical binder kit, Ginnyhoo family recipes, printed keepsake pages, and digital files for making more copies. 
Can I add more recipes later?
Absolutely! The Kitchen Keepsake is designed to grow along with your family.  Additional themed recipe collections and printable pages are planned, so you'll have opportunities to keep adding favorites and preserving new memories.
Does it make a good gift?
It does. It's a thoughtful gift for a new bride or graduate, or for the family member who always brings the dish everyone asks about.
What if I'm not much of a cook?
No judgment here. You don't have to make the recipes to save them. Plenty of family historians are better at collecting casseroles than cooking them.

There's Always Room for One More

One more recipe, that is. (Although we've been known to squeeze another chair around the table, too.)
The Kitchen Keepsake is meant to grow with your family. Look for additional GinnyHoo recipe packs featuring seasonal favorites, holiday traditions, and plenty of dishes worth making again.
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Start Your Family's Keepsake

The best time to write down Granny's biscuit recipe was twenty years ago. The second best time is this weekend.

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