Among the choices for your recipe pages is the paper they are printed on. With the exception of dividers, all text pages (personal pages and recipes) print on the same paper color and weight.

Our standard full color dividers are printed on 80# silk text stock, but did you know this stock can be used for your cookbook’s other pages as well?

Add photos of special meaning to your personal pages and/or add a photo to a recipe page. This high quality coated stock will make your photos really stand out. It’s a small upgrade in cost, but people will gladly pay more for a higher quality cookbook!

RECIPES NOT CONTINUED

Recipes Not Continued is a layout option for your cookbook that prioritizes fitting an entire recipe on one page so cooks don’t have to turn the page while they’re in the midst of preparation! The result is a classy book with more white space. All of the Recipe Formats are available with the Recipes Not Continued layout option—with the exception of the Economy Format—and some of them are only available with this layout option (see the chart above).

FREE

RECIPE ICONS

Recipe Icons identify recipes of special importance and are placed after the recipe title on your recipe pages.

Recipe Icons may be used with any Recipe Format; limit of one per recipe. 

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IMAGE FILLERS

• Education
• Food Art
• In the Kitchen
• Music
• Patriotic
• Religious
• Vintage

FREE

TEXT FILLER EXAMPLES

If you have chosen the Recipes Not Continued layout, some pages in your cookbook will be only partially filled with text. We can place small pieces of art or text in the white spaces as they occur in the typesetting process for no additional charge. Because the number of spaces to fill and the length of your recipes in their typeset form varies, we cannot predict how many spaces will be available for fillers.
* Each of our Image & Text Filler Sets contain at least 50 different fillers that will be placed randomly in your cookbook. Fillers are available only with Recipes Not Continued Formats.

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RECIPE NOTES

Recipe Notes give you the opportunity to further personalize your cookbook with information about your recipes, including:

• historical or anecdotal information
• nutritional information
• information about the recipe contributors

FREE

CUSTOM RECIPE CATEGORIES

You may also name your own recipe categories for your seven free paper dividers. You must select the Custom Dividers on the Order Form, and clearly identify your category names when we type the recipes. With Cookbook Creator®, you can type in the names of your custom recipe categories directly into your account.

MOTIVATE YOUR POTENTIAL RECIPE CONTRIBUTORS

• Tell each prospective contributor WHY you’re creating a cookbook—whether your purpose is to raise money for your charity or for a special cause or to preserve favorite family recipes.
• Give clear instructions to your contributors, a list of your chosen food categories, and a deadline for receipt of recipes.
• Let them know each contributor’s name will be printed next to their recipe.
• Communicate where the contributors should turn in their recipes.
• Request that recipe contributors print legibly OR type the recipes.
• Request that each recipe be on a separate recipe form or sheet of paper. We advise that all recipes are submitted on the same size of paper (not smaller than a half sheet, please) for ease of organization and handling.
• Request that each recipe contributor check their own recipes for accuracy.
• Request that each contributor place recipe copy only on the front of each recipe form. (Many incomplete recipes are submitted to us because the person responsible for photocopying the recipes did not realize the recipe was continued on the back of the form.)

• Check the back of the recipe form. If the recipe is continued on the back, recopy the continued information onto a second recipe form. Write the recipe name at the top of the form and mark it as a continued recipe. Staple the two sheets together. Do not fold recipes.
• If there are two or more recipes written on a single form, cut the recipes apart and tape each single recipe on a new recipe form or sheet of paper. Recipes on small pieces of paper could become separated or misplaced. If you submit recipes on different sizes of paper, you could incur additional charges if we must tape those smaller pieces of paper onto new recipe forms.
• Check for duplicate recipes. It is up to the committee to eliminate duplicate recipes. If you receive very similar or exact duplicate recipes from recipe contributors, you may opt to put all the names of the donors beside one recipe. If the ingredients or method vary only slightly, you may wish to simply list it as “Variation by” and the name of the donor. Variations which require only one or two lines will be counted as part of the recipe. However, if variations are lengthy, you will need to count them as an additional recipe.
• Determine the correct food category for each recipe. Group all recipes by food category, keeping each category of recipes separate. We recommend using a large envelope for each section. Your committee needs to verify that each recipe is in the proper category.