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Recipe Software

Recipe software to store recipes on your computer.

AccuChef

Program includes shopping lists, menu planner, nutritional analyzer and more. Shareware for Windows '95, '98, 2000, or NT.

AlcoVol Volume Calculator

AlcoVol is an interactive, graphical, fluid volumes conversion and display application. It contains standard kitchen fluids volumes, as well as volumes in use for beer, wine and spirits production, storage, distribution and consumption around the world. For Windows 98, 2000, NT, XP. Freeware.

AZZ Cardfile

With no pre-defined fields to fill in, this recipe program makes it easy to copy and paste your favorite recipes onto customizable cards. Free trial copy and 7,000 recipe file can be downloaded. Requires Windows. Shareware.

Big Oven for Windows

This recipe software has an impressive list of options including grocery lists, meal plans, recipe scaling, import and export, and more. Requires Windows XP NT 2000 ME 98 95. Free trial download available onsite.

Buster

If you are a Meal-Master or MasterCook user, then you must run and get Buster which will convert text recipes into the proper format for these programs. For PCs only, but working on a Mac version.

CalcMenu Cookbook Wizard

Store your favorite recipes, print out recipes, calculate nutritional value, do automatic recipe resizing, and more. Includes many recipes. For Windows. Download from site.

The Computer Cookbook

Shareware recipe software for Macintosh and PCs. Download demo copies. Software includes import and export capabilities.

Cookbook Wizard

Recipe software for Windows '95, '98 and 2000. The site also has a searchable recipe database of over 1,000 recipes or download collections in .zip files.

Cooking For Large Groups

With 1400 recipes included, this software focuses on recipes for large groups, useful for parties or institutions. Search database by keyword, ingredient, serving size, category or method. Several calculators included. Click on Download Demo for system requirements. Windows.

Hey Macaroni!

You've probably heard of this screen-saver, a parody of the wildly popular Macarena dance song, for Windows 3.1 and higher.

Home Cookin

Large capacity recipe database with easy import/export capabilities. Also includes spellchecker, meal and shopping planner and more. For Windows 3.1 and Windows 95.

MasterCook Software

This popular recipe program has released version 8.0. Features include a built-in recipe database or add your own, nutritional analyzer, recipe scaling, shopping lists, PDA compatibility, and more. Requires Windows 98/ME/XP, Pentium 90 or higher.

Meal-Master Software

Meal-Master is a freeware database program for collecting, searching, and exchanging recipes. This version also supports Windows, Windows95/98, WindowsNT, OS/2.

Now You're Cooking!

Now You're Cooking shareware recipe program for Windows, plus recipe database.

Recipe Wizard

Just point and click on the icons across the top of the program's screen to find the exact recipe you want by category, ingredients, occasion, prep method or a host of other choices. Windows 3.1 and Windows 95.

SoftCuisine

SoftCuisine is a Recipe/Kitchen Management application, which stores recipes and ingredients in a database and allows the creation of shopping lists and meal (menu) plans for Windows OS.

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