Do you use recipe cards? Do you keep them organized in a box, maybe alphabetically or by subject? Or maybe you like to copy a favorite recipe onto a card and attach it to a whisk or a clutch of wooden spoons as a housewarming gift. If so, then this roundup is for you! We're not certain yet if the internet has killed the recipe card. While many people use online sources for discovering and managing their recipes, there still seems to be a place for the personal recipe card — especially for gift giving. And when you can easily download and customize them from shops on Etsy and other craft marketplaces, the possibilities are endless.
Here's a few of our favorite recipe card templates. The way these work is that the designer offers an inexpensively-priced download. You pay your money and then the store sends you a link to a download. You are now free to fill out these editable Word documents or PDF files with your own recipes, framed in by the designer's cute graphics. This is great for those of us who prefer to type out recipes rather than handwrite them; it's often much faster and neater to do it this way.
TOP ROW
• 1-2 Food Friends and A Baker's Best (Tool) Friends from wildolive
• 3-4 Modern Blue and One Blue Whisk from upup
• 5 Personalized Recipe Cards from Jen and Ink
BOTTOM ROW
• 6-8 From WhiskerGraphics there's Fork and Spoon , Chicken and Food templates
• 9 Little Paper Dog's Food Fetish Kit also includes tags, labels and shopping lists
• 10 The Painted Face Sharing Cards from the Small Object
Related: Good Question: Help Me Find Clean and Modern Recipe Card Templates
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I am so going to do this. I have a pretty organized recipe box, but I would love to have the recipes typed on the cards, and have a pretty pattern to boot! Thanks for the links.
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I have a ring binder/photo album that I use with plastic protecors. I cut out the recipe or print it out, and stick it in the book. The book is kind of random, but separated in my mind into holiday, regular everyday, baking, and maybe someday I'll make it.
The beauty of this is that it lies flat, the pages can be wiped clean, and it can handle long recipes.
view amybnyc's profile
Any of these would also make great inexpensive Mother's Day gifts.
view That Perfect Something's profile
I really want to use recipe cards, they are terrific in principle, but somehow they seem so impractical. I don't have a good place for a box, nor do I often rifle through the recipes I've saved...Creature of habit, I suppose.
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Here's an organizing tip:
DO NOT file a recipe in your box, binder, notebook, etc, UNTIL you have actually COOKED that recipe and have decided that you like it enough to make it again.
I used to have scads of recipes from magazines, then the 'net came along and I had tons of print outs. Organizing them all is futile. I was wasting my time on recipes that I probably would never cook.
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