Holiday Themed Recipe Book

 I haven't done it yet, but I have come up with a couple of possibilities on HOW I want to do it that I can share.

As far as organizing the materials, I have a list of recipes I want to include, and I'm typing them all out in word.
I want to add family photos, of grandmothers, aunts, uncles, kids, cooking in the kitchen, holiday or not, so I'm collecting those as well.
I plan on asking my siblings for any family stories or memories revolving around a meal, recipe, or cooking in general to add here and there.  My mom was an awesome cook and had some hilarious idiosyncrasies involving cooking, so I want to include those.

As far as the album itself, I haven't decided which direction to go, but here are my options...

The first idea is the traditional scrapbook, but maybe 8x8 size.  print multiples of the photos, recipes, etc and make one as a prototype, then make the other 3 assembly line style, to hopefully minimize time, although I know this is the most time consuming option anyway. 

Second idea is a photo book type thing from an online place, but I've never done one of them and don't know how much text you can insert, so not sure if this is a realistic option.

Third idea is digital scrapbook, which isn't my thing. I have zero experience with them, almost zero patience in learning new stuff, unfortunately, and while it will be cheaper (probably?) and much less time consuming, since I make it once and then have it printed as many times as needed, I just LIKE the textures of different papers and embellishments ( although this project wouldn't be heavily embellished) and real handwritten notes here and there, ya know?

As far as the holiday theme and looking for ideas, maybe take a look at some December daily pages on the pinterest boards and elsewhere - there are several out there that include recipes so that could maybe give you some jumping off points. 

Because of the duplication aspect of the project, I would personally lean toward digital for a project like that but I can totally understand if it's not something you would want to take on if you'd have to fight through the whole learning curve. That would be frustrating.

That said, I would definitely use a type of book with plastic page protectors to protect the recipe pages inside especially if you expect the books to be used as intended. Cooking is messy! 6x8 or 8x8 would be better than a larger size simply because it would take up less space on the counter when it's being used and would be easier to store when it's not. The advantage to some of the smaller books is that they have protector pages with 4x6 pockets as well, so the recipients could also get some of those refills to add standard recipe cards too.

I add my favorite holiday recipes to my December Daily albums knowing that someday DD will get them and then she'll have all of those recipes for herself. Whatever you do, it sounds like a fun project and a great gift!

What a lovely gift idea! I'd love to get something like this for Christmas.

That's really cute @orieann13! Thanks for sharing the link. 

I have actually made 4. One for each of my daughters. I used a 12x12 scrapbook. I made copies of pictures of my mother for each page. I started with the first picture I had of her(age 3) and got progressively older on each page. Each page also included a copy of Mama's hand written receipe for one of our favor dishes. I also included one receipe and picture of each great grandma. My children were so surprised that Christmas. They use their books all the time now that Mama has passed away and is not here to cook for us.

I forgot about Bo Bunny's Elf Magic from last year: bobunny.com/images/miscme/elfmagicrecipecontents.jpg. Really cute recipe set. I got the Journal contents for a small Holiday album.