The family recipe book: from grandma's memory to paper

Grandma's rice, the birthday cake you always have, that sauce that only comes out right in one kitchen. Most family recipes are not written down anywhere: they live in someone's memory. A family recipe book is a perfect summer project, and everyone gets a role.

First comes collecting, and that is the best part: call grandma, take notes while she cooks, let the kids play reporter with their questions. You will end up with chaotic notes, half sentences, amounts like a handful. Perfect. That is where the AI comes in: not to invent recipes, but to give them all the same clean format.

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We are making a book with our family's recipes. I will paste recipes exactly as they were told to us, with loose sentences and home measures. Return each one in the same format: ingredients with amounts, short numbered steps, and a final section called The house trick. Do not change dish names or ingredients, and keep home measures exactly as they are, like a handful or a splash. When we have them all, suggest chapters to organise the book.

• Add a line to each recipe saying who gave it to you and when your family cooks it.
• Ask the AI for a shopping list per recipe so you can inaugurate the book by cooking.
• Record an audio of grandma telling the recipe: the book can carry the link or code to listen to it.

The cover belongs to the kids. They can ask the AI for an image idea as a reference, a kitchen with the whole family, for example, and use it as a guide to draw their own on paper. The hand-drawn version is the one that goes in the book: it is the one you will want to have in twenty years.