Sample book
Flip through From the Hollis Kitchen.
A complete sample cookbook for a fictional family, made by the same software that builds your print files. Every recipe gets a spread: the card on the left, the recipe on the right.
The Hollis family, their names and their recipe cards are invented for this sample. No real family’s cards are shown.
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The cover
Printed on the case, wrapped around the spine.
Your family name, the book title and the first card in the book on the front. The back carries the dedication. Choose terracotta, sage or ink blue.
This sample has 28 printed pages. Its cover file is 19 × 10.25 in, sized for Lulu’s casewrap hardcover with a 0.25 in spine; bigger books get a wider spine, calculated from the page count.
The details
What’s inside every book
Title & dedication
A title page with your family name, and a dedication page in your own words.
Contents & chapters
Recipes grouped into chapters you name, with a contents page listing every recipe and page number.
A spread per recipe
The card photo, front and back if needed, opposite the recipe typed exactly as written.
Room for notes
Short recipes keep a few ruled lines at the foot of the page, and there are notes pages between chapters.
A note on how it was made
The copyright page records that the recipes were transcribed with AI help and reviewed by your family.
A digital edition
The same book as a PDF, for relatives far away or for printing a single page to cook from.
Their handwriting deserves more than a shoebox.
Photograph the cards this weekend. Review your proof when it suits you. Nothing prints until you say so.