Custom family recipe keepsake bamboo cutting boards

Preserve a Piece of Your Family Story ❤️

Turn a treasured handwritten recipe into a beautiful keepsake that can be cherished for generations.

Whether it's Grandma's famous cookies, Mom's Sunday dinner, Dad's secret recipe, or a handwritten note from someone you love, your original handwriting is carefully recreated and permanently engraved onto a beautiful bamboo cutting board.

These boards make incredibly meaningful gifts for weddings, anniversaries, Mother's Day, Christmas, birthdays, memorial gifts, housewarmings, or simply as a special way to preserve a piece of your family's history.

Your board is created using the actual handwriting from the recipe you provide—keeping all of those little imperfections and details that make their handwriting uniquely theirs.

Cutting Board Sizes

Choose the size that works best for your recipe:

Small – 9" × 6" | $29.99

Perfect for shorter recipes, handwritten notes, signatures, or smaller keepsake displays.

Medium – 12" × 8" | $39.99

Our recommended size for most standard handwritten recipes.

Large – 15" × 10" | $49.99

Best for longer recipes, recipes with larger handwriting, or customers wanting a larger statement piece with more room to preserve the original details.

How to Order

1. Choose your cutting board size.

Select Small, Medium, or Large from the options above.

2. Place your order.

If there is anything special you'd like me to know about your recipe or engraving, simply leave me a note at checkout.

3. Send me your handwritten recipe.

After placing your order, email a clear photo or scan of your handwritten recipe to:

jennyb@thisolething.com

Please include your name and order number in the email so I can easily match your recipe to your order.

For the best engraving results, photograph or scan the recipe in bright, even lighting and make sure the entire recipe is visible and in focus.

Don't worry if your recipe card is old, yellowed, stained, lined, or has writing on a colored background. I will isolate the handwriting from the original paper before engraving.

Optional Add-Ons

Handwriting/Artwork Restoration +$10

Choose this option if your original recipe is heavily faded, damaged, wrinkled, stained, torn, or requires extensive digital restoration before it can be engraved.

Normal handwriting cleanup and removal of the recipe card background are already included with your board.

Additional Back Engraving +$10

Add another special piece of handwriting to the reverse side of your board. This is perfect for a signature, handwritten note, special date, short message, or another small piece of your loved one's handwriting.

Please include the additional image when emailing your recipe and note that it is intended for the back of the board.

A Few Important Details

Because bamboo is a natural material, every cutting board is unique. Wood grain, coloration, knots, and engraving depth may vary slightly from board to board. These natural variations are part of what makes each keepsake one of a kind.

The layout of your original recipe may be adjusted slightly when necessary to create the best fit for your selected board size while preserving the original handwriting.

If the recipe you submit contains significantly more handwriting than will reasonably fit on the size you selected, I may contact you to recommend a larger board rather than making the handwriting too small to appreciate.

Please Double-Check Before Sending

The handwriting you provide will be used to create your engraving. Please make sure your photograph or scan includes everything you want preserved on the finished board, including signatures, hearts, doodles, notes, corrections, or other meaningful details.

If there is something on the original recipe that you do not want engraved, please tell me in your checkout note or email.

More Than a Cutting Board

Some recipes are more than ingredients and instructions.

They're Sunday dinners, holiday kitchens, flour-covered countertops, and handwriting you'd recognize anywhere.

This keepsake allows you to preserve a little piece of that person—and the memories attached to their recipe—for years to come. ❤️

Questions before ordering?

Email me anytime at jennyb@thisolething.com and I'll be happy to help determine which board size will work best for your recipe.

Each piece is custom made especially for you by This Ole Thing.