Recipe Card Template

A recipe card is the one piece of paper in a kitchen that gets passed on, and the ones people keep are the ones that were written for the card: the ingredients down one side in the order you use them, the method beside them in a paragraph you can read with flour on your hands, the name at the top and whose kitchen it came from. This one is that card, set in type, and it prints two to a sheet so the second one is for the friend who asked.

The card reads the way a cook reads. The title, then from the kitchen of, then how much it makes and how long it takes, in small caps. Then two columns: the ingredients on the left, one a line, up to twelve, and the method on the right as one paragraph, up to 420 characters, which is a real recipe and not a summary of one. The customizer refuses a method that will not fit the card, so nothing is cut off at the card's edge.

Two layouts, as a setting. Two 4 by 6 cards on one sheet, the same recipe twice, with a cut across the middle marked in the margins and a trim to the printed border on each; a 4 by 6 card is what recipe boxes are made for. Or the full page, the same recipe set large, for the one that lives on the fridge or inside the cupboard door.

Six color themes, with a kraft for the card that wants to look like it has been in the box for years, and light ink for the stack of twenty printed for the family cookbook. No clip art, no illustrations: the type is the design, and it prints on any printer.

Print at 100%, not fit to page. For the cards, use a light cardstock, 65 lb cover, and cut along the dashed line. The free version is this design with the sample recipe, in the Studio theme, on Letter, with a small credit line at the foot of the sheet. The paid version carries your recipe, your name, both layouts and all six themes, and comes back in Letter and A4 from one purchase, with a link that works for a year.