Blank or personalised recipe book: which should you choose?
To keep your recipes, two options often come up: the blank recipe notebook you fill in by hand, and the personalised recipe book printed with recipes that already exist. Both have their strengths, but they don’t meet the same need.
Create my personalised bookThe blank recipe notebook
It is a pretty notebook with structured pages (ingredients, steps, cooking) that you fill in by hand over the years.
- Ideal for starting a collection from scratch.
- The charm of handwriting.
- But you have to copy everything out, and it stays empty if you don’t have the time.
- Only one copy: if it gets lost, everything is gone.
The personalised recipe book
It is printed with your recipes already gathered, laid out and checked. You choose the cover and the title.
- Existing recipes are saved straight away.
- Readable and organised, with a table of contents.
- Easy to order in several copies for the family.
- The recipes need to be gathered before printing.
Which one should you choose?
If the person is new to cooking or loves writing, the blank notebook is a good start. If the recipes already exist, in a notebook, on cards or on a phone, the personalised book puts them somewhere safe straight away and makes the gift far more personal.
The two go well together: the book for the family recipes, and its last page left blank for a note or a new handwritten recipe.