Buried in group chats
The good lasagna recipe is somewhere in a 400-message thread from 2022, sandwiched between a meme and a birthday emoji.
One book for the whole family
The family recipe book that outlives the Notes app
Phones get upgraded, chats get deleted, and notebooks get lost in moves. Gather the family's recipes into one online binder, a sheet per recipe, then export a print-ready PDF for any local or online printer.
forever.recipes
The Sunday Table
For the whole crew
Sides
Sides
RECIPENo. 03
Sides
Colcannon
Ingredients
- 1 kg potatoes
- Half a savoy cabbage, shredded
- 4 spring onions, sliced
- 200 ml milk
- 75 g butter
Method
- 1Boil the potatoes until soft.
- 2Simmer the cabbage and spring onions in the milk for 5 minutes.
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The problem
Where family recipes go to disappear
The food is unforgettable. The record of it, less so.
Scattered in notebooks
Three notebooks, a shoebox of index cards, and a margarine lid with measurements on it. None of them in the same house.
Living in one memory
Grandma measures with her eyes and seasons with her heart. Wonderful, until the day nobody wrote it down.
The fix
One binder, and everyone has it
One binder, one home
Every recipe the family cares about, each on its own sheet in a living online binder, with a print-ready PDF for your chosen printer.
A tab per branch
Give each branch, household, meal, or occasion its own coloured chapter tab, then file each recipe behind the tab it belongs to.
Everyone gets the link
Send one link or a QR code for the fridge and the whole family reads the same binder, on a phone or a laptop. Anyone who wants paper can use the print-ready PDF.
In real kitchens
How families use it
The Sunday keeper
the everyday book
The dishes you actually cook on repeat, written down once and easy to reach online or on printed pages.
The gift
a personalized edition
Collect the family's recipes quietly, then share the binder by link or print the PDF with any printer for a birthday, wedding, or housewarming.
See it as a gift →The heirloom
before it's gone
Capture a grandparent's recipes and stories while you can. Keep the living archive online and print the PDF through your chosen printer.
See it in the app
From Grandma's card to a binder you can cook from
Snap the cardPhotograph Grandma's handwritten card and we draft the recipe for you. 
Check the draftEvery line is highlighted, the unsure ones say why, and nothing is saved until you agree. 
Cook from the binderEach recipe gets its own sheet behind a coloured tab, with cook mode for the stove. 
Share it, print itSend the link or the QR code, or download the A5 PDF for any printer.
Real screens from the app, showing a fictional sample binder.
Output truth
The digital output and the print order are separate
forever.recipes prepares the online binder and its A5 PDF. The visitor makes every decision and arrangement for physical printing.
forever.recipes provides
- An online recipe binder with a link when its owner selects Anyone with the link.
- A QR code that opens the binder in the reader.
- A downloadable print-ready PDF of the whole binder, in A5 pages.
The visitor arranges
- Visitor-chosen printer
- Select a local or online printer and obtain its current file specifications.
- Paper and binding
- Choose the paper, binding, finish, and any proof options offered by that printer.
- Payment
- Agree the print order and pay the printer directly under its current terms.
- Delivery
- Arrange collection or delivery directly with the printer.
Write it down before it's a story.
Start with ten recipes free, then add or revise recipes when you choose.
Start your binder