A Living Cookbook
Other People's Recipes™
Every Recipe has a Story.
Other People's Recipes is a living cookbook preserving the recipes families return to, and the people, memories and traditions behind them.
Cook with OPR
The next cook-along is being planned.
Share a family recipe
What's the recipe everyone asks you to make?
The handwritten note, the Sunday favourite, the dish that brings everyone back to the table. We'd love to help preserve its story.
Share your recipeEvery family has a recipe worth remembering.
Other People's Recipes exists to preserve the meals, memories and traditions that make a house feel like home.
Why we started
Recipes are more than instructions.
They are Sunday lunches, birthday cakes, handwritten notes and the people who taught us how to cook them.
We are creating a living collection of family recipes and the stories behind them, shared with care, discovered by others, and one day celebrated around real restaurant tables.
From the kitchen drawer
Mum's Apple/Pear Chutney
windfall apples or pears
onions, sultanas & brown sugar
vinegar, ginger & garlic
simmer until thick and brown
spoon into prepared jars while hot
Label it, then let the flavours mellow.
Cook Mum's chutney recipe →A family staple, passed from Georgina's grandmother to her mum and into kitchens across the family.
This month's story from the OPR cookbook
Robin Vaughan's Gingerbread
Mumbles, Wales
Robin Vaughan from Mumbles shared his mum's gingerbread recipe with OPR. It is the moistest and tastiest gingerbread he remembers. There are no photographs of the original because it was usually eaten long before camera phones were even imagined.
Cook Robin's gingerbread →OPR Recipe of the Month
Which recipe should take the table this October?
Choose the family recipe you would most like to cook. The winning story becomes OPR's Recipe of the Month.
One vote per person each month.
A LIVING COOKBOOK
Every Family Has One Recipe
Hidden inside kitchen drawers, handwritten notebooks and old family albums are recipes that deserve to be remembered.
Other People's Recipes exists to preserve not only the food, but the people, memories and traditions behind it.