What’s inside the Cookbook.
16 pages with real content in place. Rewrite them, reorder them, or add your own.
- 1Page 1Front cover: the title, subtitle and author on light grey, a circular pan photo and mustard seeds flying out of it
- 2Page 2Contents (page 4): seven chapters and the back matter with page numbers, kitchen notes and the symbol key
- 3Page 3Chapter opener, Tadka (page 5): a spice photo, a turmeric band, the chapter’s introduction and its recipe list
- 4Page 4How to temper (page 6): the introduction, what one tadka needs, and steps 1–3 drawn in the pan with what each sounds like
- 5Page 5How to temper (page 7): steps 4–6, the order spices go in as a timeline in seconds, and what to do when it goes wrong
- 6Page 6The spice box (page 8): a photo of whole spices, the masala dabba drawn from above and the seven spices in it
- 7Page 7Twelve spices (page 9): each with its Malayalam name, what it tastes of, how long it keeps and the pages that use it, then how to toast and grind
- 8Page 8Coconut chutney (page 10): a drawing of the bowl, serves, prep, cook and keeping times, ingredients, method and notes
- 9Page 9Gunpowder podi (page 11): the same short-recipe page with makes and keeps, ingredients, method and notes
- 10Page 10Chapter opener, From the sea (page 48): a full-bleed sea photo with the chapter number and title
- 11Page 11From the sea (page 49): a pull quote and the chapter’s introduction on light grey, its recipe list and how to buy fish
- 12Page 12Salmon moilee (page 54): a full-bleed photo with a caption and where the recipe is
- 13Page 13Salmon moilee (page 55): the recipe with serves, prep and cook times, grouped ingredients, six method steps and notes
- 14Page 14Pepper prawn spaghetti (page 58): the recipe with a tinted tip box under the method
- 15Page 15Pepper prawn spaghetti (page 59): the photo across the top, a caption and three cook’s notes
- 16Page 16Back cover: blurb, two quotes, the author’s photo and note, publisher, MRP and ISBN barcode
When to use it.
Cookbook is a set of 16 print-ready pages for chefs, food writers, supper clubs and restaurants making a book of their recipes. The sample is a South Indian home cookbook: a front cover, contents with kitchen notes and symbols, a chapter opener, a two-page technique drawn step by step, the spice box with a table of twelve spices, two short recipes, a second chapter opener, and two full recipes with grouped ingredients, numbered method, serves and times and cook’s notes, each facing a full-page photo. The back cover carries a blurb, quotes and an ISBN barcode.
Made for
- Self-publishing authors
- Chefs and food writers
- Small publishers
- Studios making a company book
Make it yours in four steps.
Open it in Reports and work through it, or let Docsiv AI do the first pass with your details.
- Step 1
Put your title, subtitle and name on the front cover, and swap the pan photo for your own dish.
- Step 2
Rename the chapters on the contents page, then match the page numbers on each chapter opener and in the running heads.
- Step 3
Duplicate a recipe page for each dish and type its serves, times, ingredients by stage, method and notes.
- Step 4
Replace the photos with your own, add your blurb, price and ISBN to the back cover, and export a print-ready PDF.
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