Cookbook & Recipes
The Cookbook is where your household keeps its recipes. Save family favorites, import recipes from the web, scale them to any number of servings, send the ingredients straight to a shopping list, and plan them into your week with the Meal Planner. Because cookbooks live inside your Space, everyone in the household shares the same collection.
Cookbooks
A Cookbook is a collection of recipes. You start with a Default Cookbook ("This is where your recipes will be stored"), and you can create as many more as you like to keep things organized — for example a "Baking" book, a "Weeknight Dinners" book, or one per family member.
Creating a Cookbook
- Open the Cookbook section.
- Tap Create Cookbook.
- Give it a name, choose a type (Generic, Breakfast, Dinner, Dessert, Baking, and more), add an optional description and icon.
- Set it Public or Private within your Space.
- Save.
Editing or Deleting
Open a cookbook's menu to Edit (rename, change type, description, or icon) or Delete it.
Heads up: Deleting a cookbook also deletes every recipe inside it. This can't be undone.
Adding Recipes
There are three ways to get a recipe into a cookbook.
Create from scratch
Tap New Recipe and fill in the details yourself (see Recipe Details below).
Import from a URL (Premium)
Paste a link to a recipe webpage and Famn extracts the title, ingredients, and steps for you. Great for capturing recipes you find online.
Import from an image (Premium)
Photograph a recipe card, cookbook page, or handwritten note — Famn reads the text and turns it into an editable recipe.
URL and image import are Premium features. You can always type recipes in by hand on a free account.
Recipe Details
When creating or editing a recipe, you can set:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Title & Description | The recipe name and a short summary. |
| Photo | An image shown at the top of the recipe. |
| Yields | How many servings the recipe makes (the base for scaling). |
| Prep / Cook / Total Time | Timings in minutes. |
| Ingredients | Each with an amount, unit, and optional notes (e.g. "chopped"). |
| Ingredient Groups | Organize ingredients into sections like "Dough" or "Sauce". |
| Instructions | Step-by-step, and can be reordered by dragging. |
| Type & Cuisine | Category (Breakfast, Dinner, Dessert, Pasta…) and cuisine. |
| Tags | Labels like Quick, Healthy, Kid-Friendly, Vegetarian, Gluten-Free. |
| Source | Where the recipe came from (kept automatically for imports). |
Each ingredient can be marked "Ignore this ingredient in the shopping list" — handy for pantry staples like salt and water that you don't need to buy.
Viewing & Cooking
- Scale servings — adjust the serving count and every ingredient amount recalculates automatically.
- Step-by-step mode — a full-screen cooking view that shows one instruction at a time, with adjustable text size so you can read it from across the kitchen.
- Favorites — tap the heart to Add to favorites for quick access later.
- Estimated nutrition & cost (Premium) — see approximate nutrition (per serving, per 100g, or total) and an estimated cost based on product prices. Both are estimates and shown with a disclaimer.
Sending Ingredients to a Shopping List
From any recipe, tap Add to Shopping List:
- Choose which ingredients to include (ingredients marked to ignore are skipped).
- Pick which shopping list to add them to.
- Confirm — the amounts are added at the current serving size.
This is the quickest way to turn "let's make this" into a ready-to-shop list. (See the Shopping List article for more.)
Sharing & Organizing
- Share a recipe — generate a link to send to anyone, with a friendly pre-written message.
- Move a recipe — relocate it to a different cookbook with Move Recipe to Cookbook.
- Search — find recipes by name, description, or tag from the search bar in a cookbook.
How Recipes Connect to the Rest of Famn
- → Shopping List — add a recipe's ingredients to any list in one step.
- → Meal Planner — drop a recipe into a day and meal slot; it scales to the servings you set. (See the Meal Planner article.)
- → Your Space — every cookbook, recipe, and meal plan is shared with your household automatically.
Tips
- Mark pantry staples to ignore so your shopping lists only contain what you actually need to buy.
- Use ingredient groups for anything with multiple components (a main + a sauce) — it makes both cooking and shopping clearer.
- Tag generously. Tags like Quick or Kid-Friendly make weeknight planning much faster.
- Import once, reuse forever. Pull in a recipe from a URL, tidy it up, and it's yours to scale, plan, and shop from.
