The White House Cook Book
For America’s 250th, Card My Recipe is bringing historic American cookbooks back to the table. This collection turns recipes, menus, and household guidance from The White House Cook Book into clean, printable recipe cards you can browse, save, and share.
Independent historic collection. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the White House.
Why this collection matters
The White House Cook Book is more than a recipe book. It captures how Americans cooked, planned menus, preserved food, entertained guests, and passed household knowledge from one generation to the next.
For America’s 250th, we’re turning this historic cookbook into printable recipe cards while keeping the original pages nearby, so the recipes feel both preserved and usable.
Because old recipes are not just instructions — they are family memory.
Have a family recipe worth saving?
Turn a handwritten, printed, or pasted recipe into a beautiful card.
Make your own card
Recipes, menus, and original pages
Move through the collection in book order, with original pages and printable cards side by side.
Browse the cookbook
Search recipes, menus, and reference sections with original pages close by.
One pint of milk, boiled and cooled, a piece of butter the size of an egg, one-half cupful of fresh yeast, one tablespoonful of sugar, one pinch of salt, and two quarts of...
One pint of rye flour, one quart of corn meal, one teacupful of Graham flour, all fresh; half a teacupful of molasses or brown sugar, a teaspoonful of salt, and two-thirds of a...
For three pies: One quart of milk, three cupfuls of boiled and strained pumpkin, one and one-half cupfuls of sugar, one-half cupful of molasses, the yolks and whites of four...
Scald a well-cleansed calf's head, remove the brain, tie it up in a cloth, and boil an hour, or until the meat will easily slip from the bone; take out, save the broth; cut it...