A whole recipe collection, in your pocket
Every recipe in a large public collection, searchable from a phone. Nothing is loaded until you ask for it, and then only the small piece you asked for.
Find a recipe
Type a word, or pick a kind.
Recipes are from the FFTS / Now You're Cooking! Meal-Master collections (100 of them), kept as their contributors wrote them. They are source text: not tested, not checked for safety, and not nutrition advice.
What the collection weighs
The same recipes at each step, from the source's archives to what reaches your phone.
| What | How much |
|---|---|
| Recipes you can read here | How much159,328 |
| Kinds to browse | How much492 |
| Recipes as gathered, repeats included | How much227,185 |
| Archives they came from | How much100 |
| As the source publishes them (zip archives) | How much79.1 MB |
| Written out in full, one record each | How much449.2 MB |
| Kept by the estate, compressed whole | How much55.2 MB |
| Published here, in 6,099 pieces | How much62.8 MB |
| Largest single piece a phone ever fetches | How much183 KB |
Source: this site's own build, measured from the recipe pack, read 2026-10-05. Sizes are of files as stored. The estate's copy writes back out to exactly the records that were gathered; the pieces published here are a reading copy cut from it, with repeated recipes shown once.
How a big collection fits
Kept once
Recipes repeat themselves: the same headings, the same sources, the same phrases. Each repeated piece is kept one time, and every record can still be written back out exactly as it came.
Cut small
For reading, the collection is cut into small pieces: recipes in short runs, each kind's titles in pages, and title words by their first letters.
Fetched on request
Your phone asks for the one piece that holds what you searched or opened. The page tells you how much it has fetched so far.
Have a collection of your own?
Recipes, a catalogue, records. If it is yours to publish, it can be searched from a phone like this.