Creating a printed personal cookbook on FamilyCookbookProject.com is a rewarding experience, but your journey with the website doesn’t have to end there.

Many people continue to use the site as an online resource, either from their desktop or our “award-winning” mobile app. One fun feature is rating the recipes you use from your cookbook.

Rating recipes is simple. Go to “view recipes by contributor” and find your favorite recipe. Click on the title to view it, and right under the title, you’ll see “Rate this recipe” with five gray stars. Click on the star that represents your rating: the fifth star for a “5 star” recipe, the fourth star for a “4 star” recipe, and so on. You can even click between stars for a 4.5-star rating!

Your rating will be visible to the next person who views the recipe (anonymously), and they can leave their own rating. Over time, you’ll see how many people rated your recipes and their feedback. This interaction helps build a dialogue around your recipes.

Try it out today and invite others in your cookbook to join in!

Bill Rice is Founder and Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect, preserve and share food memories by creating their own printed personal cookbooks. He is the author of The Wellfleet Oyster Cookbook and the Cape Cod Cocktail Cookbook (Available on Amazon), both created using FamilyCookbookProject.com. He is also editor of the Donovan Family Cookbook, now it’s third printing.

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