Every Recipe Adds to the Picture.

Think about your favourite recipe.

Not just the finished dish on the plate — but the whole story of it. The way the dough looks before it goes in. The colour when it comes out of the oven. The cross-section when you cut into it and everything is exactly right. The old handwritten card sitting on the counter next to the bowl. The person who made it, dusted in flour, laughing at something off-camera. The faces around the table when it arrived.

One photo doesn't cover all of that.

Each recipe on Our Recipe Tree holds up to four photos.

Four might sound modest. But chosen well, four is exactly right — the finished dish, a process shot, the original card it came from, the person who made it. Or the table full of people it was made for. A small, deliberate gallery that tells the whole story of that one recipe.

And here's the thing: multiply four photos by every recipe in your collection, and you're not just preserving recipes anymore. You're building a family food photo library. Dozens of dishes. Dozens of moments. The cumulative record of what your family makes, where those recipes came from, and what they looked like across the years.

That's something worth putting together carefully.

There's also a feature called the Focal Point Picker.

Here's the problem it solves: when a photo gets cropped for a gallery or a cookbook preview, the automatic crop doesn't always land in the right place. You've seen it happen — the star of the dish ends up cut off, or it crops right into someone's elbow instead of the food.

With the Focal Point Picker, you tap the part of the photo you want to stay centred when it crops. That's it. Your photos always show what you actually want them to show.

Why this matters

We think recipes should be beautiful. Not in a magazine way — in a this-is-real-and-it-matters way. The food your family makes deserves to be seen clearly, remembered fully, and presented with care.

Photos are part of the story. They're what your grandchildren will look at someday.

Make each one count. And keep adding to the collection.

Log in to your collection and add a gallery to your favourite recipe today.