The Food Receipt is an independent cooking website devoted to classic American home cooking and baking — the dishes that show up at Sunday suppers, church potlucks and holiday tables, and that families copy onto recipe cards to pass down.
About the name
In early American cookbooks and handwritten household notebooks, a recipe was often called a "receipt." We chose the name as a tribute to that tradition — and to every cook who wrote one down so someone else could make it, too.
What we do
- Write dependable modern versions of classic American dishes, with cups, weights and Fahrenheit temperatures.
- Share a little history about where each dish fits in American home cooking.
- Help you decode old recipes with a guide and a free vintage measure translator.
- Help you plan holidays with guides and free, personalized holiday timelines on request.
Our approach
All recipes on the site are original. We share general history about dishes, but we don't copy text from old cookbooks, and we don't invent stories about recipes belonging to real people. Read our Editorial Promise.
Independent and free
We don't sell food, classes or subscriptions. Advertising may help support the site but never decides what we publish — see Funding & Ads.
We'd love to hear from you at [email protected].