Printable Recipe Cards (Free PDF)

A recipe card earns its place by keeping the cookbook on the shelf: one card, one dish, propped against the kettle while you cook. This sheet prints cards at the two sizes a recipe box or a photo sleeve already takes. Choose two 4 x 6 inch cards to a page or four 3 x 5 inch cards, then trim along the marks at the corners. Every card has its own name line, servings and timings, and separate ruled blocks for the ingredients and the method.

On the 4 x 6 card the ingredients sit in a narrow column on the left and the method fills the wider column on the right, so the shopping half and the cooking half stay apart. Serves, prep and cook each get a line of their own under the title. The smaller 3 x 5 card stacks the two blocks instead, with servings and total time on one line. Both are ruled faintly, which keeps handwriting level without the lines shouting on the finished card.

Every line is a form field. Type the recipe in your PDF viewer before you print and the card comes out in clean type, which matters for the ones you hand to someone else, or print the page blank and write it out at the table. Plain paper is fine for a binder; card stock holds up better in a box next to the stove. Cut on the corner marks and the card's own border becomes its trimmed edge. One page, US Letter or A4.