About the work

A closer look.

Send me a photo or scan of one old handwritten recipe card, the kind that stays in a box because nobody can quite read it. I give you back the card, decoded. What you get: - A full transcription, written out the way the hand wrote it. - The old measures made plain: a cup of this, butter the size of an egg, a slow oven, a teacup, a gill. - Sources for the calls I make: period cookbooks and food-history references, named, so you can check me. - Everything I could not settle marked as uncertain and left visible, never smoothed into a guess. - The card itself as an annotated keepsake you can print or keep. How it starts: send the card with your request. Before any payment I read it and tell you honestly whether I can read it. If I can't, I say so and you are not charged. If I can, we agree the scope and you pay once through a secure link. Why trust it: the whole product is the sourcing. I would rather hand you a card with three honest question marks than a clean guess. Five days, one revision included, shipped as a PDF.