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Recipe Card

Domesticity
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A written card containing cooking instructions. It can preserve family memory and domestic knowledge.

Detailed Definition
A recipe card often carries more than ingredients and timings: it may hold a relative's handwriting, a stain from use, or a note added in the margin. In poetry, it can preserve a voice after the person who wrote it is gone. Its instructions create a structure through which memory, migration, celebration, and loss may be explored. A poet may use the card to show how domestic knowledge passes between generations in fragile, handwritten forms.
Example
Example in poetry:
In a recipe-card poem, the speaker lists “two cups of patience” beside flour, using cooking instructions to reveal a family lesson; A poem can imitate a handwritten recipe card, with stained corners and crossed-out measurements suggesting generations of revision; The command “fold in the apples gently” can become a metaphor for handling grief without breaking it; A poet might end a recipe-card poem with a missing instruction, showing that love or loss cannot be fully measured
Additional Notes
A recipe card can function as an heirloom as well as an instruction sheet: handwriting, stains, substitutions, and marginal notes may reveal family relationships and changing circumstances. In poetry, quote fragments of measurements or commands to create voice, rhythm, or an intimate sense of inherited knowledge. Related concepts include archive, recipe poem, memory, and maternal or communal labor.
Also Known As
Cookery Card
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