Recipes are more than food — they're memories.
The recipes we treasure often remind us of the people who made them, the occasions we shared and the traditions we want to keep. We created Our Recipe Tree to help preserve those connections, one recipe and one story at a time.
It started with our own family recipes.
Our Recipe Tree grew from a real family project.
Annie Hall and her cousins Jill and Jane shared years of family recipes, food memories and the stories that tend to live alongside a recipe rather than inside it.
Jill and Jane had helped create a family recipe book. It was a meaningful keepsake, but like any printed book, it captured a moment in time. Adding recipes, updating details or including newly discovered stories wasn't simple.
While working to digitize and update those family recipes, Annie realized something: You can find millions of recipes online, but there is only one version made by the person you remember.
That became the idea behind Our Recipe Tree. A place to save and organize recipes while keeping them connected to the people, photographs, memories and stories that make them special.
Today, you can begin with your own personal recipe library, organize recipes into Recipe Collections with an eligible membership, and create Recipe Books whenever you're ready. The recipes can keep growing and changing as new memories are made.
Our Recipe Tree is operated by Golden Pond Investments Inc.
You can find millions of recipes online, but there is only one version made by the person you remember.
When recipes bring a community together
The Amherstburg Food & Fellowship Mission used Our Recipe Tree to collect contributed recipes and create a 119-page Celebrity Recipe Book.
The finished book helped raise thousands of dollars for the Mission while also creating community awareness and in-kind support.
The project showed what can happen when people share recipes for a common purpose. Contributions from many people became one organized recipe project and a finished cookbook.
Whether you're preserving family favorites or gathering recipes from a school, church, team or nonprofit organization, Recipe Collections can help keep everything organized.
What matters to us
Four simple ideas guide how we approach saving recipes, preserving stories and helping people connect.
People first
Recipes connect us to people. We want to make it easier to preserve the stories, relationships and traditions behind the food we love.
Preservation over perfection
You don't need a perfect collection to begin. Saving one meaningful recipe today is a worthwhile start. You can add details, photographs and stories as you go.
Share when it matters
Some recipes are personal. Others are meant to be enjoyed with family, friends or a community. You should be able to choose how your recipes are shared.
Keep the story going
A recipe library can grow over time. You can continue adding recipes and memories, then create a Recipe Book when you want something to print, share or keep.
Who is this for?
Anyone who wants to save recipes, preserve food memories or bring people together around the dishes that matter to them.
The family recipe keeper
You have Grandma's handwritten recipe cards, a drawer full of favorites or dishes everyone asks you to make. Give them a place to live beyond the kitchen drawer.
The thoughtful gift-giver
A family recipe book can be a meaningful gift. Gather the recipes and memories that matter, then create a downloadable Recipe Book with an eligible membership. Arrange printing separately if you wish.
The everyday recipe collector
You enjoy finding and saving recipes. Keep your favorites in My Recipes, your personal online recipe library, where you can organize and find them again.
The workplace organizer
Office potlucks, team lunches and the colleague whose dish everybody asks about. A Recipe Collection can help gather those favorites in one organized place.
The family organizer
You help bring everyone together for birthdays, reunions and holiday meals. Invite family members to contribute recipes to a Recipe Collection you manage.
The community connector
Churches, clubs, sports teams and neighborhood groups all have recipes worth remembering. Bring contributions together around your shared community story.
The fundraiser organizer
Looking for a meaningful school or nonprofit fundraising project? Invite recipe contributions, organize a community cookbook and arrange printing or distribution for your fundraiser.
The aspiring cookbook author
You have recipes you want to organize into a book. Create a Recipe Book from your saved recipes or Recipe Collection. Eligible memberships offer downloadable files, with additional publishing-oriented exports available through Pro.
Start preserving the recipes that matter to you.
Begin with your own free personal recipe library. Save the recipes you love, add the stories behind them and explore more possibilities whenever you're ready. No credit card required.
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