This is what your cookbook will look like.
These are real pages from a real Held Co. cookbook — the one that started it all, not templates or mock-ups.
See what's inside a Held Co. family cookbook
Every recipe gets its own page in a Held Co. family cookbook. Here's what that looks like, finished and in hand.
Full-Page Recipe Spreads
A single-page layout for a weeknight staple — recipe, story, and photo, built around whatever you send us.
single-page, small imageFor a family favorite that deserves the whole page! Recipe, story, recipe cards, photos — we build around whatever you send us.
Missing a photo or a story? We’ll lay out the page to fit what you have, every time.
Recipe + story spreadYour stories deserve to be featured! If you send us a longer story, we’ll give it its own facing page — the full recipe on one side, the memory behind it on the other.
CoverEvery cover is designed to look and feel like a real cookbook, based on your style— minimal and modern, traditional and warm, or somewhere in between. And, our books are printed as hardcovers, so they hold up on a shelf and actually get handed down.
These are real pages, photographed from a real, finished cookbook — not a mock-up. The number of pages in your cookbook will be based on your package — 25, 50, or 75 recipes. The design, the layout, and the page-by-page care are exactly what you're looking at here.
Ready to make your own family cookbook?
You book will be laid out and printed for you, start to finish. It will look just like this, but sized to fit your family's story, not ours — your family's recipes, your photos, and your stories on every page.
The book that started it all — my family cookbook became the reason Held Co. exists. It runs longer than any of our current packages, but every design choice on these pages carries over exactly — I put the same care into creating your book as I put into my own!
— Emily, Founder of Held Co.