Best for
- Families preserving recipes that were never written down
- Cookbook coordinators interviewing a family cook
- Relatives documenting hand-measured ingredients and sensory cues
Oral recipe capture
Unwritten family recipe interview capture checklist
Prepare a consent-based interview worksheet for family dishes made from memory, with exact wording, observed cues, unresolved amounts, story prompts, and a separate family-review step.
What the handoff includes
- Consent and session plan
- Exact-words capture sheet
- Sensory-cue observation log
- Unknown measurement and review list
Workflow
- Ask the cook what may be recorded and how it may be shared.
- Record the cook's exact words before editing or standardizing them.
- Separate visual, texture, aroma, sound, and timing cues from estimated amounts.
- Have the cook and a named family reviewer confirm any tested, standardized version later.
Review safeguards
- Do not invent measurements, temperatures, cooking times, or safety claims.
- The planner does not record audio or video, contact relatives, or test the recipe.
- Do not treat observation, memory, or a single cooking session as proof of food safety, nutrition, allergens, or repeatable results.
Service boundary
FamilyRecipeLegacyAI helps organize, transcribe, and format private family recipes. It does not provide nutrition, allergy, food safety, legal, or publishing advice. Families should review every ingredient, measure, name, and story before sharing or printing.
When paid recipe book prep is worth it
Buy the $49 starter after the free brief has a small sample or first 8-12 pages, enough context for OCR review, chapter planning, measurement flags, and one family reviewer. Use the $149 full prep when the family needs a fuller private booklet handoff with source mapping, permissions, proof tracking, contributor notes, archive structure, and private sharing planning. Skip payment if you need scanning, perfect OCR, physical printing, public publishing, file-permission changes, messages sent, nutrition, allergy, food-safety, copyright, legal, publishing, or printer advice, or guaranteed transcription, print quality, delivery, refunds, privacy, approval, sales, or revenue.
Should a handful be converted to cups immediately?
No. Preserve the cook's wording first, record what was observed, and label any later measured version as separately tested and family-reviewed.
Does this capture the interview automatically?
No. It prepares a local planning checklist only; an authorized family member handles consent, recording, testing, and review.