Make a shared family cookbook everyone can cook from

Grandma's lasagne is on an index card. Your partner's curry is in their head. The birthday cake is a screenshot on your sister's phone. A shared cookbook puts all of it in one place — for everyone.

Why a digital family cookbook

• Everyone has it. The whole family sees the same recipes on their own phone.
• It's safe. A handwritten card can be lost; a recipe in Table can't be spilled on.
• It grows. Anyone you allow can add the recipes they love, so the book gets better every year.
• It travels. Cooking at your parents' house? The recipe's already in your pocket.

How to set one up in Table

1. Create a book — call it "Family recipes", "Sunday dinners" or "The Jansen kitchen".
2. Add recipes. Paste links to recipes from any website, Instagram or TikTok, or type in the handwritten ones. Add a private note with the tips that never made it onto the card.
3. Invite your family. Send an invite link and choose a role for each person: editor (can add and change recipes) or viewer (can cook from them).

Ideas for shared books

• Household weeknights — the rotation you and your partner actually cook.
• Family heritage — recipes passed down, with the stories in the notes.
• Holiday table — the dishes that appear every December, in one list.
• Student survival — send your kid off to university with a book of easy favourites.
• Friends' supper club — everyone adds what they brought.

Mixed measurements? Mixed languages? Handled.

Families rarely cook in one system. Every recipe in Table switches between metric and US units with one tap, servings scale up for a crowd, and a recipe in another language is translated with the original kept alongside.