Old Family Recipe

Old Family Recipe is where families digitize, organize, and print the recipes that matter — handwritten cards, magazine clippings, the dishes nobody ever wrote down because grandma made them by feel. The problem we solve: Family recipes get lost. The handwritten card in grandma's drawer. The Sunday sauce only Aunt Marie knows. The cornbread your dad makes from memory. One generation forgets, and the recipe is gone forever — along with the story behind it. Generic recipe apps treat dishes as commodities; we treat them as cultural artifacts. How it works: Snap a photo of any recipe (handwritten card, magazine page, cookbook spread, even faded ink). Our AI reads the handwriting and structures it in 30 seconds with the photo, ingredients, instructions, source person, story, and origin year all preserved. Sage, our AI kitchen companion, plans your weekly dinners from your saved recipes and turns the meal plan into a grocery list with one click. The whole family contributes to one shared cookbook — siblings, cousins, kids — so grandma's cornbread lives next to your daughter's first pie. What makes us different: • Provenance as first-class data. Every recipe carries who made it, when, and why — required fields, not optional metadata. Search by family member, by decade, by story. • AI-native, family-grade. Sage understands YOUR family's preferences, dietary needs, and cooking history. It plans dinners from recipes you already love, not from a generic database. • Print as heirloom. Three professionally-bound editions, all made in North Carolina: softcover ($29), hardcover ($59), photo-book grade ($99). Every printed copy ships with a QR code back to the living digital cookbook so the stories keep growing after the book is on the shelf. • Privacy-first. Your family cookbook is private by default. Share with chosen relatives. No public profiles unless you opt in. • Built on an open standard. The recipe:// protocol lets AI agents (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT) save recipes directly to your cookbook via our MCP server — your AI workflow, integrated. Real outcomes: • Grandma's stuffing recipe never gets lost — your kids and grandkids will cook it 50 years from now. • "What's for dinner?" gets answered automatically with meals your family already loves. • The mental load of meal planning + grocery shopping drops to near-zero. • Your family inherits a printed hardcover heirloom — the centerpiece of holidays for the next generation. Use cases: • A memory keeper digitizing decades of recipe cards before they fade • A busy parent who wants meal plans built from family favorites, not generic recipes • A grown child gifting Mom a printed cookbook of her own recipes for Mother's Day • A scattered family contributing to one shared cookbook from across the country Made in North Carolina. Built for the families who don't want their recipes — or their stories — to disappear.