Plain Lab · notebook
Recipe Notebook
A5 recipe notebook, eighty pages ruled for dish, source, serves, prep, cook, oven, ingredients, method, and what to change next time.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 120
- Leaves
- 60
- Sheets
- 30
- Signatures
- 6 × 20pp
- Spine
- 6.86 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 9.17 mm · 26.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 18
The good version of a dish tends to get made once and then reconstructed from memory for every attempt after, because nobody wrote down what changed between the first try and the one that worked. Eighty pages here are ruled the same way every time: the dish and where it came from at the top, serves, prep, cook and oven across a row, a box for ingredients, a box for the method, and a short box at the end headed simply 'next time.'
Thirty lined pages follow for a shopping list, a substitution that worked out, or a note that does not belong inside a recipe's own boxes.
The book does not taste anything. It only holds still long enough for the good version to survive being written down twice, which is usually the one time it actually matters.
What is inside
- Recipes
- 80pp
- Dish and source, serves, prep, cook and oven, ingredients, method, and a short box for what to change next time.
- Notes
- 30pp
- A shopping list or a note that does not belong inside a recipe's own boxes.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Ruled Notebook WideA finer pitch9.17 mm to 8.73 mm
Questions
What does a recipe page hold?
Dish and source at the top, a row for serves, prep, cook and oven, a box for ingredients, a box for the method, and a short box for what to change next time.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, 120 pages, 6.86 mm across the spine.
Is there room for notes outside the recipe format?
Thirty lined pages at the back, for a shopping list or anything else.
Is it dated?
No. Start it on whichever dish is on the stove.
Does it include any recipes already?
No. Every page is blank until it is written on.
When you have put the spirit into the dish, you have the cup and the fuel; and are not the raisins acting like the wicks?
