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A few of the words
- INDEX
- The classic 3×5 index card became the standard for home recipe collections in mid-20th-century America, fitting neatly in the tabbed wooden boxes sold at five-and-dime stores.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CLIPPING
- Newspaper and magazine recipe clippings — often from the food sections that ran every Wednesday — were tucked into recipe boxes alongside handwritten cards for generations.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- LARD
- Before vegetable shortening became widespread in American kitchens after the 1910s, lard was the everyday fat called for in pie crusts, biscuits, and fried chicken alike.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SIMMER
- Many beloved handed-down recipes carry the instruction to "simmer low and slow" — a reminder that patience was once the most essential ingredient in a family kitchen.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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The Recipe Box: a free large-print word search
Free large-print recipe box word search — handwritten cards, cherished favorites, and the quiet magic of an heirloom kitchen.
About Food & Home
A recipe box is a small time capsule — inside, index cards in faded ink, a clipping taped and yellowed, a grandmother's handwriting looping through the instructions for a Sunday roast. The splatters and stains are proof of love made edible, each smudge a moment when the card was held close to the stove. To open the box is to hear the kitchen as it once was: the simmer on the back burner, the soft fold of batter, the smell of lard warming in a cast-iron pan.
How to play
- 1Find a word from the list.Press the first letter and drag to the last — across, down or diagonally, forwards or back. Or tap the first letter, then the last.
- 2It stays marked.Found words get a soft teal line through them, on the grid and in the list.
- 3Make it comfortable.Use the A / A+ / A++ size control any time, or pinch the grid for a closer look.
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