You15:20
Varenyky with cherries, from Grandma’s card.
Grandma’s recipes, in her own voice
A photo of her card, the quantities in grams under it, and Grandma explaining the dough in a recording with its transcript. Your aunt adds her version, under her name.
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At a glance
- For
- Families keeping a grandparent’s recipes and stories.
- You keep
- A folder for Grandma with a thread for recipes and one for her stories, shared with the family at Can add notes.
- Nothing to set up
- Photos of the cards, her voice explaining them, and each relative’s version.
- The moment
- At Christmas your cousin cooks the varenyky from the thread: the card, the grams you worked out, and Grandma saying how thin to roll the dough.
- Plan
- Pro Only the one who shares needs Pro, which also transcribes the recordings. Your family joins free.
Before
Grandma’s recipes are on cards in her handwriting, and half of what matters isn’t on them: “flour until it feels right”. Your cousin has a photo of one card, your aunt a different version of the same varenyky. Grandma is 88, and after every Sunday visit you mean to write it down.
Why a thread, not a photo of the card
Her voice, kept
Record her for as long as she talks, up to two hours. With Pro the recording gets a transcript, so Search finds “poppy seed”.
The card and what isn’t on it
The photo of the card, and the quantities written out under it in grams.
Everyone adds their version
Your aunt’s note sits under Grandma’s, with her name and the date.
A thread, over time Example
Your workspace starts empty.
Grandma Hanna
Recipes
Sun 6 Sept
The card first, as it is.
Her voice, with the transcript Pro adds under the recording.
You16:05
Sunday at Grandma’s, 47 minutes: the dough, the cherries, and how her mother made them in Poltava.
“You add the water slowly. When it stops sticking to your hand, that’s enough.”
Mon 7 Sept
The quantities worked out once, under the card.
You10:30
Ingredient On the card In grams Flour 3 glasses 450 Water 1 glass 200 Cherries a bowl 600 Sugar to taste 40
Sun 13 Sept
Your aunt’s version, under her name.
Iryna19:40New
Mine has an egg in the dough. Grandma says that’s the city way.
Sun 11 Oct
A reference to the story behind the dish.
Ostap18:20New
The story of the cherry tree behind her mother’s house is in Stories.
Stories · 11 Oct
Sun 1 Nov
The family cooks from the thread, and adds to it.
You19:15
Made them for Grandma’s 89th. She said the dough was too thick.
Limits
- Search finds the words in notes and transcripts, not handwriting in a photo: write the recipe out under the card.
- Transcripts need Pro: 10 hours a month, up to 2 hours for one recording. In a place you share, everyone’s recordings use your hours.
- Ask before you record someone, and tell them who will hear it.
- ThreadPage is for people aged 18 and over: invite adults only.
Start with one thread.
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