A free taste of The Family Cookbook — 52 recipes in the Sampler App

The Family Cookbook

489 family recipes, gathered across generations — the cooking Scott's family grew up on, now gathered in one place.

This is a Scott D Education production: a lifetime of family recipes, collected and organized by Dr. Scott Donaldson. Start cooking today with a free taste in the sampler app — and a printed cookbook of your own, with all 489, is on its way.

A golden roasted chicken with herbs — one of the 489 family recipes in the cookbook
A lattice-top berry pie from the family cookbook

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The Cookbook — The Book

All 489 recipes in a printed public edition for your own kitchen shelf — paperback. The book is in production now — coming soon — and launches after the books already in line ahead of it.

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The Family Cookbook Collection

Start with a free taste, take the cookbook anywhere, or put all 489 recipes on your kitchen shelf.

Start Cooking — The Free Sampler App

A free taste of the cookbook: 52 favorite recipes, searchable by name or ingredient, right on your phone, tablet, or computer. No account, no cost — just open it and cook. The printed book has all 489.

Looking for that casserole, that pie, that Sunday dinner? The sampler serves up 52 family favorites — full ingredients, full instructions, ready to cook or print. Type a name or an ingredient and start cooking. Want the whole collection? All 489 recipes are in the printed cookbook.

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52 sampler recipes free in the app · All 489 in the printed book · Paperback $24.99 · Coming Soon — in production

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Has a recipe from this cookbook landed on your family's table — a dish that became a regular, a taste that took you back? Scott would love to hear it.

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About the Author

Dr. Scott Donaldson — “Papa Scott” — is a business professor at Crowder College in Missouri, where he also serves as Faculty Association President. But his favorite classroom has always been a lap, a couch, or the shade of a good tree, with his granddaughter nearby.

The Family Cookbook gathers the recipes his family has cooked for generations — the dishes that showed up at Sunday dinners, church suppers, and holiday tables, some of them handed down for more than a hundred years. Scott collected and organized all 489 of them so they'd never be lost — and so your family can cook from them too.

When he isn't teaching or writing, you'll find him serving his family and his church in the corner of Kansas he calls home.

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Questions

Is the cookbook app really free?

Yes — the sampler app is completely free: 52 favorite recipes, searchable, with nothing to buy and no account to create. The full collection — all 489 recipes — lives in the printed cookbook.

When does the printed cookbook come out?

It's in production, behind several books already in line. Email Club members hear the launch date first — the paperback will be $24.99 when it launches.

What's in the cookbook?

489 family recipes across the whole table — main dishes, sides, breads, desserts, and the church-supper classics — gathered from Scott's family kitchens across generations.

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Take the Cookbook Anywhere

The Family Cookbook app is on its way — all 489 recipes on your phone, every one searchable by name or ingredient, right there in the kitchen or the grocery store. It isn't out yet, but Email Club members will be the first to know the moment it launches.

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More About The Family Cookbook

The Family Cookbook gathers the recipes Scott's family has cooked for generations — the dishes that showed up at Sunday dinners, church suppers, and holiday tables, some of them handed down for more than a hundred years. Start cooking today with 52 favorites free in the sampler app; all 489 recipes live in the printed book, collected and organized by Dr. Scott Donaldson so they'd never be lost — and so your family can cook from them too.

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