The cookbook only your family could make.
Gather the recipes everyone actually cooks — grandma's cards, the reunion casserole, the sauce nobody writes down — and give them back as one finished cookbook.
You get a print-ready PDF. Order printed copies from Lulu, at Lulu’s price.
Watch a card become a page
Recorded in the app as it runs today, with a real card.
- 71%
- of Americans have a recipe handed down to them
- 46%
- keep them on physical cards — only 13% have a digital copy
- 15%
- have already lost or damaged some
A recipe box is one flood, one move, one house-clearing away from gone. The copy in your hands is usually the only one.
Bob Evans / OnePoll survey of 2,000 Americans, 2023.
No homework for grandma
Most “family memory” gifts hand the recipient a year of assignments. Buk asks nothing of her at all.
The usual way
You buy the gift. She gets weekly prompts to write up, for a year. If she stops answering — and people do — the book never happens, and the gift quietly becomes a chore you gave someone you love.
This way
You photograph her cards on the kitchen table in an afternoon. You do the arranging. She does nothing until you put it in her hands. And then it's her handwriting, her measurements, her margin notes, set properly.
The occasions people actually make these for
Mother's Day
Her own recipes, returned to her as a finished book — with the grandkids' additions at the back.
Weddings & showers
Every branch of the family contributes a dish. The couple starts their kitchen with the whole canon.
Reunions & holidays
One book, every household. Print a copy for each family that shows up in the group photo.
In memory
When someone is gone, the recipes are how they stay at the table. Photograph the card in her hand and it prints on the page, right above the typeset version.
A weekend project, honestly
Start it Friday; it's printable by Sunday.
- 01
Everyone sends what they have
Photos of handwritten cards, food-blog links, recipes pasted from texts. You collect them all into one book.
- 02
Buk sets every page
Handwriting read, blog clutter stripped, every recipe re-set in one matching style. Nothing is invented: her words stay hers. The two storytelling styles retell them, and only if you choose one. You proofread every page against the original.
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Then it’s yours to print
One file, typeset and watermark-free once you buy the project. Take it to a local print shop or a service like Lulu — they print it and bill you directly, as many copies as the family needs.
From her card to their book
One recipe · six publishable styles
Hover a style to see the same recipe re-set. These are the real pages — exactly what you export as a print-ready PDF.
Heritage and Parlor are shown with their AI voice applied: the same recipe, re-told in the style's register.
Don't take our word for it
Paste any recipe link or text and watch it become a page. Free, and no account needed. The gift book works exactly the same way, card by card.
Two ways in. Pick the one you actually are.
Most people come to make one book. Some stay to cook from it. You can see the whole thing before you decide either way.
Making a book?
Everything you need to finish one family cookbook, for 90 days.
- All 6 print styles
- Chapter sorting, style voices, translation
- Photo & handwritten import
- Watermark-free, print-ready PDF
Your recipes, books and the share links you've already made stay yours, and so does every PDF you've already saved. When the window closes, adding recipes past the free limit, a drive's full capacity, the AI-voice styles, new AI edits, and watermark-free exports all need an active pack or Pro.
Start the bookKeeping a kitchen?
For cooking from it all year, not just making it once.
- 200 AI ops a month
- Unlimited stored recipes
- No 90-day window — it runs until you cancel
- Share links that stay live
Cancel anytime. Pro stays active until the period ends.
Keep the kitchenStart free and build the entire book
$0A free account gathers recipes, arranges the book and shows you every finished page. Exported pages carry a small “Made with Buk.recipes” mark. Decide it's worth keeping, and that comes off. No surprises at the end.
- Enough to build a book each month
- Up to 50 stored recipes
- 3 of 6 print styles
Give the thing no one else can.
The occasion is closer than you think, and the recipes are already in the family.
Start a gift book