Est. in Granny's kitchen Granny Bakes Recipes from the tin

About the tin

Every family had a tin

Somewhere in most British kitchens there was a biscuit tin that didn't hold biscuits. It held cards: recipes copied from neighbours, clipped from magazines, and written out in a hurry on the back of an envelope. Granny Bakes is that tin, opened up.

A grandmother and granddaughter baking together at a kitchen table
Where every tin starts

Photo: PS Imaging, CC0 1.0

How the tin works

Dividers by decade

Each card sits behind the decade it was a household favourite. Some are older than that, but that's when they earned their place in the tin.

From the tin

Every card starts with a short history: where the bake came from and why families kept making it.

Margin notes

The scrawl in the corner and the sticky note on each card are the tips that make the difference between fine and perfect.

Grams or ounces

Switch any recipe to imperial and it converts ounces, pints and inches the way Granny would have written them. Your choice is remembered.

A word on measures

Recipes are written in metric with conventional, fan and gas oven temperatures. The ounces switch rounds to the nearest half ounce, which is how old recipes were written and how old scales were marked. Spoon measures are level unless stated.

Got a card of your own?

If your family tin has a recipe that belongs here, we'd love to add it, with a line about who made it and when. Send it to hello@grannybakes.com.

Photo credits

The photographs are by generous home cooks and photographers who shared them under Creative Commons licences. Thank you to every one of them.