1776–2026 · American Food History for the 250th

Historic Collections

Landmark cookbooks, reimagined as printable recipe cards.

To mark America’s 250th, Card My Recipe is bringing historic American cookbooks back to the table — preserving recipes, menus, and original cookbook pages as beautiful cards you can browse, save, and share.

Now featuring Fannie Farmer and The White House Cook Book.

The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book cover
The White House Cook Book cover
Fannie Farmer recipe card preview
Original cookbook page from The White House Cook Book
Historic cookbook recipe cards

Now available

Two historic cookbook collections, converted into printable recipe cards with original pages nearby.

Fannie Merritt Farmer portrait The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book cover Fannie Farmer recipe card preview
Fannie Merritt Farmer · 1896
Available now · 1896 Browse now

The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

Fannie Merritt Farmer · 1896

The cookbook that helped standardize American recipes, now browsable as clean, printable recipe cards.

  • Historic recipe cards
  • Menus and kitchen notes
  • Original cookbook pages
Browse Fannie Farmer
Historic White House photograph from the Library of Congress The White House Cook Book cover The White House Cook Book recipe card preview
F.L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann · First published 1887
Available now · First published 1887 Browse now

The White House Cook Book

F.L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann · First published 1887

A classic American household cookbook for America’s 250th, with recipes, menus, and household guidance turned into printable cards.

  • Historic American recipes
  • Menus and household guidance
  • America 250 food-history feature
Browse The White House Cook Book
Preserve family recipes

Save a family recipe for America’s 250th

Historic cookbooks show how recipes carry memory from one generation to the next. Turn your own handwritten, printed, or pasted recipe into a beautiful card you can print and share.

In preparation

Coming next

More landmark cookbooks are being prepared as printable recipe-card collections.

What Mrs. Fisher Knows cookbook cover
Collection III · Coming August 2026

What Mrs. Fisher Knows

Abby Fisher · 1881

One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American woman, preserving recipes dictated by Abby Fisher in San Francisco.

Coming August 2026
The Settlement Cook Book cover
Collection IV · Coming September 2026

The Settlement Cook Book

Mrs. Simon Kander · 1901

A landmark settlement-house cookbook created to help immigrant women learn American home cooking.

Coming September 2026

Each collection is built from historic cookbook sources and paired with original pages where available. Dates refer to first publication unless otherwise noted.