The Taste & Tradition Recipe Book Kit is the only new addition to the Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection this November. It gives you somewhere to keep the recipes you reach for again and again, from the slice everyone asks you to bring to a shared morning tea to the pavlova you make every Christmas. With a deep green floral cover, gold foil labels, and space for photos and notes, it’s a recipe book you can make your own.
Keep the stories behind your favourite recipes
What I like about this kit is that there’s room for the little details you might otherwise forget. You could write down who taught you to make a dish, add a photo of the children helping in the kitchen, or jot down the change that made a recipe work better for your family. The chocolate chip biscuit spread in the photo below shows how nicely a handwritten recipe, a few photos, and a short story can sit together.
Here’s another way to use the recipe book. In this spread, a photo of the finished apple pie sits above the handwritten recipe, with space on the opposite page for any extra notes you’d like to keep.
What’s inside the Taste & Tradition Recipe Book Kit?
The kit makes one recipe book measuring 21.3 × 17.8 cm (8⅜″ × 7″). It comes with a floral ring binder and printed pages, so you can spend your time choosing recipes and deciding what you’d like to include. The dividers make it easy to find a favourite, and the folded pocket page is handy for keeping a handwritten recipe or a clipping you want to save.
The kit includes:
- 50 recipe cards
- Printed pages for notes and stories
- Decorative dividers and a folded pocket page
- Page protectors
- Gold foil labels
- Step-by-step instructions
The printed wording comes in English, French, and German. The kit is a lovely option if you’re new to crafting or want an easy project you can pick up whenever you have a spare moment.
A recipe book to give or keep
If you’re looking for a personal Christmas gift, you could start the book with a handful of family favourites and leave some blank cards for the recipient to add their own. I think it would be especially lovely for someone setting up their first home. You could even ask a few family members to contribute a recipe in their own handwriting.
Looking for another Christmas crafting project? Take a look at the Christmas Companions Kit I shared in October.
Which family recipe would you put on the first page? You can order the Taste & Tradition Recipe Book Kit (169893) for $89 NZD through my Stampin’ Up! online shop.