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Welcome to Crumb, a place to keep your recipes
Give your recipes their own pages, with room for ingredients, instructions, and the notes that help someone cook. An introduction to publishing with Crumb.
How much lemon goes into the sauce, and how much do you save for the end? A recipe page has room to answer that question where someone needs it: beside the ingredients and at the right moment in the method.
Crumb gives recipe creators a website for those pages. We call each creator's website a publication. You can write a recipe, add your photographs and notes, and organize the collection into categories readers can browse. The cooking stays yours, including the judgment about what someone needs to know to make it.
Bring one recipe onto the page
Start with a dish you know well. Write it in the dashboard, or review a draft Crumb has prepared from a public Instagram caption you have authorized it to use. The recipe help guide explains both routes. An initial import can cover part of an existing collection; it still needs your attention before readers cook from it.
Suppose your video shows you loosening a sauce with pasta water, but the caption never mentions it. An imported ingredient list will not settle how much water to reserve or when to add it. Return to your cooking notes and put that instruction on the page. Review the whole method with the same care, then preview it on your phone. Could someone follow it with a pan on the stove?
Once that recipe is ready, give it a place in the collection. A recognizable dish name and a category such as pasta can help a reader choose what to cook next. You can change the writing, photographs, and organization as the publication grows. Our recipe website guide takes you through preparing the pages and checking that readers can open them.
Preview before you pay to publish
Creating, editing, and previewing a publication is free. Under the current publishing
terms, new publications need Crumb Pro at $15 USD a month to go public; existing
publications keep their publishing terms. Pro includes hosting, publication themes, and a
crumb.so address. You can also connect a domain you own.
For a printable recipe, use the free recipe card maker.
Choose a theme and see how your first recipe reads in it. Check the longest ingredient line, the photograph, and the step that needs the most explanation. Those are useful things to have in front of you while deciding whether this is where you want to keep your recipes.