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.
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.
Move through the collection in book order, with original pages and printable cards side by side.
Source: From The White House Cook Book, first published 1887.