Ms. Pierce, a retired administrative assistant in Adams, N.Y., says her mother typed the card for her 36 years ago, passing along the recipe that she had learned from her mother, Ms. Pierce’s ...

In response to Ava D., in Denver, who installed a small magnet under her kitchen cabinet to hold recipe cards, I put a tiny ...

Doublex The Rise and Fall of the Recipe Card A brief history of how we started bequeathing our favorite recipes via 3-by-5-inch index cards—and what will be lost when they finally disappear.