Cookbook design and typesetting

About this sample

A 34-page full-colour sample from Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1910 edition). The goal: old recipes made easy to use in the kitchen. Each recipe is a card: ingredients in a tinted column with aligned fractions, numbered steps beside them, and small icons for method, oven heat and time. Colour tabs on the page edge mark each section. Includes measure and cooking-time tables, old photos as duotones and a full index. Trim 190 × 240 mm; Fraunces, Source Serif 4, Rubik. Print PDF, InDesign package, IDML. Self-initiated sample, public-domain text.

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What it shows

• Recipe cards: ingredients in a tinted column with aligned fractions
• Numbered steps and small icons for method, oven heat and time
• Colour tabs on the page edge for each section
• Measure and cooking-time tables, old photographs as duotones
• A recipe finder and a full index

Text: Fannie Merritt Farmer, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, revised edition (Little, Brown, 1910), from Project Gutenberg eBook #65061 (gutenberg.org/ebooks/65061). Public domain in the USA.