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  • Simple Handwritten Recipe Card Tutorial

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    Lindsey Bugbee

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    I recently looked through my grandmother’s recipe box, and I was fascinated by what I found. Handwritten recipes from decades ago greeted me, and I realized that I really need to start writing out more of my own favorite recipes instead of letting them live on Pinterest! If you feel the same way about preserving…

    Simple Handwritten Recipe Card Tutorial | The Postman's Knock

    The humble recipe card has been around for centuries, and it is much more than the sum of its parts (paper and ink). In addition to being useful for cooking purposes, recipe cards present a way to preserve memories and keep meaningful dishes on the dinner table.

    If you don’t have a recipe box or a cookbook binder, I would encourage you to purchase or make one! I have a little binder that I keep recipes in, and I enjoy the nostalgia that flipping through it evokes. I love asking friends to write down the recipes behind yummy foods they have made for me at one time or another, or I’ll write down recipes myself. Then, I put the recipe in my book!

    Simple Handwritten Recipe Card Tutorial | The Postman's Knock

    Today’s tutorial doesn’t present you with anything earth-shatteringly innovative, but I do hope the simple steps below will encourage you to write out a few of your own favorite recipes! Whether you plan on sending a recipe card to a friend or you wish to keep it for yourself, the information in this post should get you started on producing some lovely, useful pieces.

    You’ll begin by procuring a high-quality piece of paper to write your recipe on; the paper shouldn’t be flimsy. I like to use 80 lb. drawing paper (pictured below) or watercolor paper.

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