Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
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 The Recipe Box
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.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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